Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:29:55 -0400, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 01:53:10PM -0600, Rainer Deyke wrote: >> Congratulations, you just invented ActiveX. I hope you like your >> platform lockdown and your security vulnerabilities. > > ActiveX controls don't run as a limited user account. That's the key > here: the entire browser should be running as a restricted user, and it > creates processes even more restricted than itself.
How does this prevent platform lockdown? > (When Google did this in Chrome, it was hailed as brilliant and > innovative. > I saw it as them finally doing what they should have been doing from > the beginning.) I haven't really seen the native client system used in any crucial real world site. > >> 99% of web pages will offer just the win32 version. > > Meh, works for 91% of users. So, what technologies should the minority use then? Nothing? You're suggesting a cross-platform solution but you don't even believe yourself that it really should be cross-platform. That's pretty dishonest.
