On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:35 PM, C S Shyam Sundar <[email protected]>wrote:
> > How can I view the websites with activex controls in my ubuntu 10.04 >> system? > > > One sane way which I recommend for users is to install Virtual Box, setup > an XP guest and then visit the site using IE 6 or 7. > > I would recommend the same. This used to work for me: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page , but even then it only supported upto IE 6 and I dont think the project is maintained. Besides, the last couple of times I tried to install it, it did not work. It actually goes to the microsoft.com website to download some dll's and things, and I think this is where the program fails. MS probably moved the location of those files, is my guess, but I could be off the ball. > Activex has always been a security nightmare. > > > Not necessarily true. ActiveX run native code, can serve better and are > faster. It is the browser's security model which has made activex > vulnerable. > > That still made it a security nightmare :), apart from it being a completely proprietary, platform-specific implementation completely unsuited for the web. It's really sad how much it is still used :(. > > Similar implementations are mozilla extensions. > > Which provide, I think, superior capabilities in terms of access to native code, etc. and have a much cleaner security model in that the user has to explicitly install a piece of software and the browser warns them that they should trust the site, etc, apart from the additional layer of trust addons.mozilla.org provides. > That is why very high end web apps provide activex, xpi. If both of them > don't work, then they resort to java applets. > > Hopefully soon most of what you need would be cleanly defined in HTML 5 (and related specs), and implemented across browsers - Local Storage, device control, read access to the file-system and we wont need any of these things :) Sorry for going OT - to the OP (original poster): first, send an angry letter to the webmaster of said site, then either install VirtualBox with windows in it (surprisingly straightforward to do), or access said site on a friend's windows machine (i think some people still use that OS .. :) .. Would be really great if someone does have a solution for installing Internet Explorer through wine or something though. It's really hard to make websites work in a browser that refuses to follow standards AND won't even install itself on your operating system :/ -Sanjay > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > >
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