Firefox compatibility for VS.net Web apps?

[Taavi Burns]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:17:50 -0500, Andrej Marjan <amarjan-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Aaron Vegh wrote:
> ActiveX files are basically win32 binaries. They're run natively by IE,
> or by (Netscape?/Mozilla?) on win32 with an adapter plugin. They won't
> run on a Mac without some sort of Windows emulation software (like Wine
> on Linux).

Um...no.  They are x86 binaries which will not run on the PPC chips used
in Macs with something "like Wine on Linux".  Wine Is Not and Emulator;
it runs native binaries on the CPU, and only reroutes OS calls to make
a program think that it's running on Windows instead of Linux.  The program
is still running natively.  VMWare does something similar to this, except that
it intercepts hardware interactions, so that you can run an entire OS (and
all of its subsidiary programs) as if they were running alone on the machine.

You'd need something more like VirtualPC or Bochs to run ActiveX binaries
on a Mac, and I've never heard of that being done for anything other than
the whole machine (i.e. VirtualPC or Bochs).

> This is also why ActiveX is such an enormous security hole: it's native
> binaries running unrestricted on your local box!

Just Say "NO!"  ;)

> Possible solutions include finding some way to run ActiveX on macs, or

Not likely.

> replacing the ActiveX calendar control with a Java applet or some sort
> of DHTML.

Much better.  :)

Oh yeah, and get those clients off of geriatric versions of IE.  It's slow, and
probably just plain broken. ;)

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