On Mon, 11 May 2009 00:45:50 -0500, Barbara Nitz wrote:
>On Friday afternoon IBM had corrected the coding error that caused activeX
>to be executed in the first place and that then terminated the browser (no
>matter what type of browser). After deleting temp files and the history, the
>annoying prompts (when set to prompt) and pop-ups that an activeX control
>did not execute are gone.
>
Does that mean that execution of ActiveX was unintentional, and
ActiveX is now removed from the picture?
>As far as that goes, I can now pester IBM again with the 'real' problems :-)
>
Lest we forget, as it appears that IBM may have forgotten:
Linkname: Viewable with Any Browser: Campaign
URL: http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
>Marty,
>I am not supposed to install too many things on the company PC that the
>company hasn't approved. In too many cases this causes problems down the
>line when some update (via netinstall) doesn't work. Otherwise I would have
>tried to upgrade to the newest IE version.
>
See above.
>Besides, all the browsers I tried terminated. Not surprising given that it was
>bug.
>
If not surprising, at least dismaying. Browsers ought to be
resilient to defective web pages. This was reportedly a bug;
it could as well have been a DoS attack.
-- gil
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
