[Techtalk] why is Active X in web pages evil, but not Perl/PHP/Javascript?

[Carla Schroder]

This is all very helpful, thank you! So it is correct to say that using 
server-side scripting avoids browser compatibility problems? For example, I'm 
continually running into Javascript problems when I'm Web surfing, and for 
crappily-designed sites that are unreadable without it, well, I can't read 
them. There are noticeable differences between browsers, for one example 
Konqueror gags on Javascript pages that Mozilla renders without problems.
 
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