ActiveX a design flaw? What drugs are you on? Not everyone uses HTML as an interface to the masses - DHTML has proven itself to be a compelling application front end. I've been developing exclusively with IE & HTML & Binary Behaviours (a form of activex) with AJAX style architecture for more than six years because it's just so easy to turn out great looking apps. If you stopped to actually look within windows you'll see that MS does this in many places - HTML inside dll's for many common interfaces. Why? Because it's a hell of a lot easier and more flexible designing an interface in HTML than the alternatives, hence the XAML direction.
Given that the IE DOM is written in COM (something that Mozilla tipped their hat to with XPCom after the terrible architecture in netscape) does it not make sense to use activeX controls within IE? (ActiveX controls are COM components). From an architectural point of view, this is a given.
Please explain why MIME types on file extensions are a bad idea?
And that comment about web services lock-in is just rubbish - if you're going to make throwaway comments like that, at least back them up with some evidence.
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ActiveX a design flaw? What drugs are you on? Not everyone uses HTML as an interface to the masses - DHTML has proven itself to be a compelling application front end. I've been developing exclusively with IE & HTML & Binary Behaviours (a form of activex) with AJAX style architecture for more than six years because it's just so easy to turn out great looking apps. If you stopped to actually look within windows you'll see that MS does this in many places - HTML inside dll's for many common interfaces. Why? Because it's a hell of a lot easier and more flexible designing an interface in HTML than the alternatives, hence the XAML direction. Given that the IE DOM is written in COM (something that Mozilla tipped their hat to with XPCom after the terrible architecture in netscape) does it not make sense to use activeX controls within IE? (ActiveX controls are COM components). From an architectural point of view, this is a given. Please explain why MIME types on file extensions are a bad idea? And that comment about web services lock-in is just rubbish - if you're going to make throwaway comments like that, at least back them up with some evidence.