I was checking today’s recommended fixes by Microsoft: a total of 5 fixes. Four of them are defined as ‘critical’. And guess what?
Two of the issues have to do with ActiveX. It would be rather mean to say that this is (once again) a proof that ActiveX is totally out of ..um.. touch with today’s Internet world. Come to think of it, it actually is. Here’s a quote that pitted Java against ActiveX:
“Java applets are sandboxed. To give one example, they cannot open an image file from a site other than the one where the applet came from.”
I’m not even a fan of Java, but for some kind of reason the argument above sounds like utter nonsense if you think of all the recent fixes to Explorer and Windows.