"An example of a power-play and widely deployed de-facto standard that we resisted at Mozilla, wisely: ActiveX plugins. Independent companies emulated some of t

"An example of a power-play and widely deployed de-facto standard that we resisted at Mozilla, wisely: ActiveX plugins. Independent companies emulated some of the ActiveX COM APIs, plus basic MS COM, on Unixen, in the '90s" Thanks for doing this Brendan. I was at a young startup at the time and an MS dev team gave us access to the IE Trident preview with ActiveX [0] and you could tell it was a pile of horse, without even implementing it. '*you what?* create a plug-in, only works on IE, then everyone has to download it?' Totally against the grain of how the web worked and still works. [0] IE4 layout engine: https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTrident_(layout_engine) https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipe...