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Reading the article and seeing applets, my mind was like "hey, 90's tech, let's talk about ActiveX too". I mean, if we're talking about dead & malware ridden te
by unnouinceput 6y ago
Reading the article and seeing applets, my mind was like "hey, 90's tech, let's talk about ActiveX too". I mean, if we're talking about dead & malware ridden tech for web ActiveX is king, followed by Java applets and only in the 3rd place is Flash.
Don't get me wrong, current model of app stores and their "verified" apps is just as bad when it comes to malware, but hey, it is what it is.
- badsectoracula 6y agoWouldn't Flash being ActiveX on IE make it the worst as it becomes the sum of both its own and ActiveX's badness? :-P (FWIW i think that complexity aside, ActiveX in general is a nice idea - but it wasn't designed for the web and Microsoft just shoved the closest equivalent they had to applets into IE because they were afraid of Java's compile-once-run-anywhere threatening their desktop dominance and ActiveX's reliance on x86 and Windows API would put a stop on that; but didn't put much care into it beyond that point)