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

[Kathryn Hogg]

Kai MacTane said:
> At 1/19/05 09:58 AM , Walt wrote:
>
> The fact that MSIE is the only browser that ever can or ever will run
> ActiveX is another part of the evil, yes. But I don't consider that nearly
> as evil as the security problems mentioned above.

I've heard of an ActiveX plugin for Firefox.  Of course this will only run
on Windoze.

http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm

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Kathryn
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