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Oh boy did you miss something in the 90s! It was call active pages (or some bullshit, I have tried to block it from my memory) and it made Internet Explorer the
by mhuffman 10y ago
Oh boy did you miss something in the 90s! It was call active pages (or some bullshit, I have tried to block it from my memory) and it made Internet Explorer the king of browsers and still locks in a lot of government agencies and business from upgrading their infrastructure, because they don't want to lose or have to pay to redevelop "critical" applications to their daily work.
- cbhl 10y agoActiveX? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX
- girvo 10y agoI think they mean Active Server Pages, ie. classical ASP, which you could program using Visual Basic?
- int_19h 10y agoASP was programmed using VBScript (and actually extensible - it used Active Scripting, so you could also do JS, and third parties added support for e.g. Perl). And, since it was server-side tech, and very low-level at that, it didn't care what browser rendered the output. I think this was a reference to ActiveX. Although most ActiveX controls weren't written in VB, either, even though you could do it - the resulting control was just too large to download, because you had to include ~2 Mb of VB runtime (remember, we're talking about the time back when dialup was still incredibly common - and 2 Mb takes 5 minutes to download on 56k). Mostly it was done in VC++ with ATL.
- programmer_man 10y agoNo, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop Kind of related, it was a COM control you could stretch over your whole desktop, that received push notifications. Also, I believe it was TOTALLY secure. Edit: Dang it, I missed where they said "and it made ie the king of browsers." -- Yes, ActiveX
- cbhl 10y agoI was 8 when Active Desktop came out -- I used it to put Neopets on the desktop of my computer.