On 11/03/04 21:09 +0000, Biju G C wrote: <snip>
- Mozilla ActiveX Control Embed the Mozilla browser engine (Gecko) into any ActiveX application.
This control implements the same APIs as the Internet Explorer control making porting of existing applications reasonably straightforward.
Uh oh. So instead of getting a sane manual page, we will get Mozilla popping up, or worse, a current page being hijacked by another application. And Mozilla is not the only browser around.
- ActiveX Control For Plug-ins Embed plug-ins in any ActiveX application. This control can host
most Netscape Plug-in API (LiveConnect) plug-ins, allowing them to use them in your existing ActiveX applications, including Internet Explorer.
Why exactly should I want to use ActiveX, given that this is essentially allowing an untrusted third party access to files on my filesystem?
- Plug-in For ActiveX controls Embed ActiveX controls in any NP API application. This plug-in
hosts ActiveX controls allowing them to be used in browser such as Netscape 4.x/6.x, Mozilla and Opera.
In which case, I will just uninstall those browsers. How about requiring that not everything run via the web? How about running applications via actual executables? Its not a hard thing to do.
Devdas Bhagat