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> A browser's rendering engine is the ONLY part that matters Active X would like to disagree with you. We're currently dealing with a massive (revenue/company)
by jsmeaton 11y ago
> A browser's rendering engine is the ONLY part that matters
Active X would like to disagree with you. We're currently dealing with a massive (revenue/company) product that only runs under IE < 10 because it still uses Active X.
I don't think a common rendering engine is at all a bad thing. Maybe two to keep them honest. But blink + webkit + trident (?) + Gecko (?) seem like wasted engineering talent.
- zenir 11y agoSouth Korea has(or had, they may have changed it in the last few months) a law that enforces the usage of ActiveX for everything which needs security (e. g. online banking, online shopping)
- dtech 11y agoThat sounds like a prime example of incredible technical incompetence of the lawmakers or incredibly good lobbying by MS. Maybe both.
- Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 11y agoIt made some sense at the time the law was conceived. SSL was crippled to uselessness by US export restrictions. IE 6 had a monopoly. So they built their own much more secure encryption (using ActiveX to plug into IE) and mandated its use for everything that matters. The incompetence was in mandating a certain implementation instead of writing a technology-neutral law requiring a certain security level.
- yuhong 11y agoBlink and WebKit don't have much overlap.