Re: question about ActiveX and IE6

[sponge]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:42:49 -0000, Roy <z.5.RoyDent@spamgourmet.com>
wrote:

>In article <Xns94447F583032AndreasPerforatus@66.185.95.104> ,
>p@thologi.cal says...
>
>> Is there a way to disable this annoying warning. MicroSnot's
solution is to
>> enable ActiveX. Figures, eh?
>> Running win98se, btw.
>>
>
>It seems reasonable, to me, that you should receive information as to
>why the page may not work, or work properly, for you. You have the
>choice to keep your chosen settings or change them. What's wrong with
>choice?
>
>You should blame the designer of those pages who makes use of the
>Activex content obligatory for the page to work.
>
>You also have the choice of using a better browser, but you'll likely
>find that the page still won't work properly.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Roy

Very rarely will lack of ActiveX controls affect the accessibility of
a site or how it looks, since ActiveX has nothing (in itself) to do
with rendering. You can be sure that if you can't access a site
because it requires Internet Explorer, it's almost certainly a site
you don't WANT to be visiting anyway. More likely than not, it's up to
no good if it requires ActiveX.

Mozilla works perfectly, and is better in some respects to IE,
security issues aside. I've only had four websites that wouldn't work
with Mozilla; All wanted to install a hijacker, and three were the
homepages of vendors of hijackers and spyware.

Opera only had a few more problems than Moz, (in all but one case,
it's because I had referrer logging disabled, and re-enabling it fixed
that).

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[Roy]

In article <8d76ec03.0312011626.66d9dbef@posting.google.com >,
yosponge@yahoo.com says...

> You can be sure that if you can't access a site
> because it requires Internet Explorer, it's almost certainly a site
> you don't WANT to be visiting anyway. More likely than not, it's up to
> no good if it requires ActiveX.

Although it's certainly /safer/ to assume that, and always a first
assumption with an unknown site, it doesn't /have/ to be a dodgy site.

My online bank, very far from dodgy, will work up to a point with
Firebird, but it's designed around IE, and they won't change that. It
mostly works, but printing functions, for example, always fail.
Sometimes you have no realistic alternative.

IME anyway.

Cheers,

Roy