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True. Unfortunately many large corporate websites through which you pay bills, order tickets, etc. are becoming infested with JS widgets and bulky, slow interfa

True. Unfortunately many large corporate websites through which you pay bills, order tickets, etc. are becoming infested with JS widgets and bulky, slow interfaces. These are hard to avoid.

artificial 5y ago
Conversely no software to install. Browser as a platform. Don’t have to boot to Windows to pay your bills with activex for example
- TeMPOraL 5y ago
  The platform isn't the problem. The problem is with the amount of code that does something other than letting you "pay bills, order tickets, etc.".
- foxfluff 5y ago
  The mostly JS-less web was fine, fast, and reliable 20 years ago and I never had ActiveX. I hear stories about Flash and ActiveX but I literally never needed these to shop or pay bills online. Payments also didn't require scripts from a dozen domains and four redirects..
  - artificial 5y ago
    Yup, and taking payments online was awful but privacy was more of a thing. In South Korea ActiveX was required until recently. https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/south_korea_activex_certs_dead/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/south_korea_activex_c...