In article , Mayayana wrote:
> | Whereas some of us saw ActiveX for the first time and shook our
> | heads in sorrow because it looked like the most stupid idea we'd
> | seen since email clients that allowed attachments to execute.
>
>   You really thought that back then? It's what allowed
> them to beat Netscape.

Let me see ... I can write an executable program that I can put into a
webpage, and when a user visits the webpage my program will run
natively on their machine with all the rights and privileges of the
current user ... how could that go wrong?

It was compete insanity on Microsoft's part from the word "go", and
should never have been released. It was, however, quite typical of the
way that MS thought only about enabling technologies and never about
moderating or policing those technologies.

> For years it was a brilliant design. It still is. It's just not
> safe.

If it's not safe it's not brilliant. Quite the opposite.

.. and MS didn't "beat" Netscape, not really. Firefox is still with us
and it's Chrome that's growing most in market share.

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Cheers,
 Daniel.

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