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

[Kathryn Hogg]

Almut Behrens said:
>> 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... ;(

I didn't read the website too carefully but I did see that the crossover
plugin is supported.  So it is possible to get ActiveX components running
on linux via wine.


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