[ubuntu-in] activex in firefox/ubuntu

[C S Shyam Sundar]

>
> That still made it a security nightmare :), apart from it being a
>>> completely proprietary, platform-specific implementation completely unsuited
>>> for the  web. It's really sad how much it is still used :(.
>>
>>
Platform specific, yes. IE loses here. There were times when IE was running
on Mac OS X. But if you take the corporate world where MS sells a lot of
licenses worldwide., IE is the preferred browsers and there are a lot of
intranet apps which run only on IE and have lot of Activex on backend. It
simply works best in windows world.


>> Which provide, I think, superior capabilities in terms of access to native
> code, etc. and have a much cleaner security model in that the user has to
> explicitly install a piece of software and the browser warns them that they
> should trust the site, etc, apart from the additional layer of trust
> addons.mozilla.org provides.
>

IE does that now. Each activex has to be digitally signed and warranted.


> Hopefully soon most of what you need would be cleanly defined in HTML 5
> (and related specs), and implemented across browsers - Local Storage, device
> control, read access to the file-system and we wont need any of these things
> :)
>

IE9 will support HTML5. But will still support ActiveX with their
finegrained security model.

-- Shyam
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