Mozilla 1.4 Alpha To Have ActiveX Support

quakeslut writes "According to the newly posted Mozilla Staff Minutes, Moz is set to have initial ActiveX support for the next alpha. ActiveX... be afraid... be very afraid."

Comments

Ugh

[fredrikj]

I wonder, why couldn't they make this an optional plugin? I definitely don't need ActiveX for anything.

Let's hope it'll be left out from Phoenix...

Re:Great!

[Jahf]

Run Windows?

Want ActiveX?

Run friggin Explorer!

["We" in the following is whoever you want "us" to be ... ]

We most definitely know that we are not the center of the Universe ... MS has proven this quite well time after time. The fact that Mozilla is doing this is PROOF that we aren't since if we had our choice, most of us would rather see ActiveX die in favor of more open choices and possibly even Java.

I won't care if ActiveX is in Mozilla -too- much as long as it can be disabled from loading and bloating my memory footprint even further. I've lived without ActiveX for years, I don't need to change it.

Re:Oh Well

[dublin]

SVG is beautiful, elegant, powerful, and open. It's possible to completely define a very complex and dynamic user interface in it. And that's exactly why we'll never see it in any browsers that matter - not in IE because of the obvious threat to MS UI hegemony, and not in Netscape/Mozilla because there's just not enough interest and not enough capable programmers.

It's sad, because SVG is probably one of the best an most important technologies of the early 21st century, but barring huge changes in the world, it will probably not be allowed to set us free.

FWIW, I would despereately love to use SVG, but just this week decided aginst it in a new project, simply because the world is not ready for it, and Batik is the closest thing there is to a real SVG viewer, and it is certainly not really usable in the world at large. I really hope this changes, but I'm not too optimistic right now.