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

[Almut Behrens]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 03:41:33PM -0600, Kathryn Hogg wrote:
> 
> 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.

Hopefully!!   Honestly, I do hope that they won't ever seriously
consider making it available for the Linux platform -- in some mood
like "oh, while we're at it", or "now that we've already implemented
a large part of it, why not...".
I can't get fully rid of that latent fear, though... ;(

Almut