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

[Raquel Rice]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:17:14 -0800
Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:

> 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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> Carla Schroder

I think that this is true ... for the most part.  Then along comes
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and different browsers support
different parts of CSS.

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Raquel
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