Active-X

[Fred Atkinson]

I just read about Active-X. I am told that it only comes for
Windows, MacIntosh, and UNIX.

Is it true that it doesn't run on Linux? Is there an
alternative for it?

Fred

[ERACC]

Since Active-(HE)X is created *by* Micro$oft and folks *at* Micro$oft
think Linux is an anathema to them I think you can figure out the answer.

On the other hand there are alternatives to Active-X but not in the way
you likely mean. IOW and AFAIK there are no Active-X controls *for* Linux
but there *are* Active-X alternatives for developing graphical stuff. If
you want to run certain applications that require Active-X from the
Micro$oft world sadly you are /locked-in/ to Micro$oft for most of those.
In that case "they" *got* you.

Caveat: there may be some way to do what you want using WINE with its'
API layers. I have no idea if they have implemented anything for Active-
X. Check out http://www.winehq.org/ to see.

Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)
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[Darrell Stec]

ERACC wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:55:53 -0400, Fred Atkinson wrote:
>
>> I just read about Active-X. I am told that it only comes for Windows,
>> MacIntosh, and UNIX. Is it true that it doesn't run on Linux? Is there
>> an alternative for it?
>
> Since Active-(HE)X is created *by* Micro$oft and folks *at* Micro$oft
> think Linux is an anathema to them I think you can figure out the answer.
>
> On the other hand there are alternatives to Active-X but not in the way
> you likely mean. IOW and AFAIK there are no Active-X controls *for* Linux
> but there *are* Active-X alternatives for developing graphical stuff. If
> you want to run certain applications that require Active-X from the
> Micro$oft world sadly you are /locked-in/ to Micro$oft for most of those.
> In that case "they" *got* you.
>
> Caveat: there may be some way to do what you want using WINE with its'
> API layers. I have no idea if they have implemented anything for Active-
> X. Check out http://www.winehq.org/ to see.
>
> Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)

There is an ActiveX pluggin for Mozilla/Firefox that one can use with Wine.
But why one would use one of the most crippling and disastrous virus and
Trojan magnets for Windows I don't know. I am happy that ActiveX does NOT
run in Linux natively.

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