Tons of business apps were written in ways that required activeX. It was one of the main reasons so many companies held on to ancient versions of IE. Sure you

Tons of business apps were written in ways that required activeX. It was one of the main reasons so many companies held on to ancient versions of IE. Sure you could disable activeX but in practice it would have been rare. People bitch that sites don’t support people who disable JavaScript but it really isn’t worth catering to that type of person. I’ve been in multiple shops where we had the debate about how to handle non-JavaScript clients and every single time all the developers agreed it wasn’t worth the hassle. This includes companies who had blind developers using screen readers and companies that had major legal liability if the site wasn’t accessible. The “screen readers don’t support JavaScript” argument has been dead for years now. The only people without JavaScript are those who intentionally disable it. It’s just not worth building what is almost a second website for incredibly tiny amount of non-JavaScript viewers out there.