On Sat, 05 Sep 2020 17:08:40 +0100
Daniel James  wrote:

>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.
>
... and force-feeding the most dangerous intrusions :(

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