On 12/03/04 15:04 +0000, Biju G C wrote: <snip>
(sorry, this is going off-topic for the list) right now in MS-Win world if an application programmer want to show an Image on his screen it is possible.
It is possible even today in the Unix world if you like to the appropriate libraries.
what if he wants to add window/box with content as image and text together like a web page in his application earlier Mozilla/Netscape only allowed to open it as an external program. But IE provided it as a control.
This is one of the biggest reasons why we recommend using Mozilla on Windows over IE. Windows executes the image file, or whatever has to be displayed locally. This is a major cause of bugs/exploits in Windows.
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This will encourage developers to make xul application even for the use of IE users. This in turn helps GNU/Linux users because they already can view XUL apps in Mozilla Hence this is the part I am more interested !!!
Eh? So what stops people from installing Mozilla to view XUL pages? What is wrong with the idea of cross browser applications, *if* they MUST be web based? <rant> I use lynx, links and Mozilla about equally Do I care about graphics? Not necessarily. Do I care about usability? Yes. Do I care about standards compliance? Yes Do I care about IE or Konqueror or Dillo or ....? No. Are my pages usable in those browsers? Yes. </rant>
Easy enough questions to answer.
- 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?
What is bad if a MS App developer use Mozilla plugin. Again this is not for GNU/Linux
Because those Windows boxes on the network affect the usability of *my* network. Because all those viruses which spread through bugs in ActiveX affect *my* mail server, through sheer volume. They affect my network by filling it with useless traffic. All those viruses which offer SMTP services to spammers run on Windows systems. Quite a few of them walk in via ActiveX bugs.
- 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.
This I dont like. But majority of world want it, if they should to switch back to mozilla
So you want to follow Microsoft and play catch up? No one ever won that way.
And people switching back to Mozilla is good for GNU/Linux
Not really, not if it means that Linux has to behave like Windows. The four Linux applications/suites I have the biggest beefs with? Mozilla, OpenOffice, KDE and GNOME. I will leave it to you to understand why (hint: whats the difference between Unix tools and Windows tools?).
Devdas Bhagat