On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:35 PM, C S Shyam Sundar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:csshyamsundar@gmail.com">csshyamsundar@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> How can I view the websites with activex controls in my ubuntu 10.04 system?</blockquote> <div><br></div></div><div>One sane way which I recommend for users is to install Virtual Box, setup an XP guest and then visit the site using IE 6 or 7. </div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div>I would recommend the same. This used to work for me: <a href="http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page">http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page</a> , but even then it only supported upto IE 6 and I dont think the project is maintained. Besides, the last couple of times I tried to install it, it did not work. It actually goes to the <a href="http://microsoft.com">microsoft.com</a> website to download some dll's and things, and I think this is where the program fails. MS probably moved the location of those files, is my guess, but I could be off the ball.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Activex has always been a security nightmare.</span></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div> Not necessarily true. ActiveX run native code, can serve better and are faster. It is the browser's security model which has made activex vulnerable.</div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>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 :(.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div> </div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>Similar implementations are mozilla extensions. </div> <div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>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 <a href="http://addons.mozilla.org">addons.mozilla.org</a> provides.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>That is why very high end web apps provide activex, xpi. If both of them don't work, then they resort to java applets.<br> </div></div></div></blockquote><div>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 :)<br> <br>Sorry for going OT - to the OP (original poster): first, send an angry letter to the webmaster of said site, then either install VirtualBox with windows in it (surprisingly straightforward to do), or access said site on a friend's windows machine (i think some people still use that OS .. :) ..<br> <br>Would be really great if someone does have a solution for installing Internet Explorer through wine or something though. It's really hard to make websites work in a browser that refuses to follow standards AND won't even install itself on your operating system :/<br> <br>-Sanjay<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#444444"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br> </span></font></div></div> <br>--<br> ubuntu-in mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br>