On 10/8/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <shiva.madras at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Manish Chakravaty, > > Is Active X needed for browsing if the browser integrates components > such as Macromedia Flash and has java enabled ? >
You don't need need ActiveX for most public web sites now-a-days. It's more expensive to develop ActiveX content than to develop and deploy Flash and Java content. > In other words, is there a majority of websites, education sites in > particular, that have Active-X specific content which will not load if > Active X controls are not there ? > There aren't. > In other words, is Active X a substitutable component ? > > I said Active X, to imply the graphics capability of the browser. > The graphics capability of the browser, as an end user would understand it would depend upon the following (in decreasing order) a. Flash support b. Realplayer support c. Java applet support d. SVG support. > The focus on this exercise is to build a Solaris device with good > graphics capability on a small foot print. Support at least Flash on Firefox 2.0.0.7, and you've got a good bit of the public web sites covered. The basic Solaris Express, etc would not include all of these, so you'll have to do some with with integrating the plugins. -- Sriram
