In a word: mantainence. ActiveX is a failed idea by Microsoft, and in fact there is always a burden in maintaining things that aren't seen as at all useful or even desirable.
We removed plugins for a similar reason. Chris On Thursday, December 31, 2015, Mark Hung <[email protected]> wrote: > tdf#90386 is about IE8 only, IE9 and above do not have the issue. In the > case I reported, IE8 is still used in order to compatible with legacy > systems. It is my point that, why bother to remove it if not harmful or > infeasible? > > 2015-12-31 10:19 GMT+08:00 Bryan Quigley <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>>: > >> >I've reported tdf#90386 last year, which was about IE8 didn't render >> >embedded LibreOffice properly. >> From that bug, does that mean it doesn't really work properly anyway >> since LO 4.4/IE8? >> >> >Eventually it obsoletes, but I prefer to consider this when facing some >> >directly related event. >> >( i.e EOL of Windows7, new toolchain ceasing ActiveX support, or >> security >> issue which lacks of engineer resource ) . >> >> Microsoft recently changed their policy (going into effect Jan 2016), >> to obsolete all but the latest IE on said platform. Which means for >> the great majority of (supported) users IE11 is the only supported >> version. >> >> [1] >> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/microsoft-internet-explorer/en-us >> >> >> On 31 Dec 2015, at 7:02 AM, Bryan Quigley <[email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi there, >> >> >> >> Recently it was decided to remove the rest of NPAPI support [1] which >> >> got me thinking about the other Windows specific plugin tech - >> >> ActiveX. >> >> >> >> It seems ActiveX is very much no longer recommended by Microsoft and >> >> it seems to not work by default for IE10/11 on Windows 7 and up. Any >> >> objections to removing? >> >> >> >> AFAICT this would just be removing embedding LO into IE. >> >> >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Bryan >> >> >> >> [1] https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/20658/ and ESC discussion >> >> here: >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2015-December/071504.html >> >> [2] >> https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/06/a-break-from-the-past-part-2-saying-goodbye-to-activex-vbscript-attachevent/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> LibreOffice mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> LibreOffice mailing list >> [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice >> > > > > -- > Mark Hung >
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