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In a word: mantainence.

ActiveX is a failed idea by Microsoft, and in fact there is always a burden
in maintaining things that aren't seen as at all useful or even desirable.

We removed plugins for a similar reason.

Chris

On Thursday, December 31, 2015, Mark Hung <marklh9@gmail.com> wrote:

tdf#90386 is about IE8 only, IE9 and above do not have the issue. In the
case I reported, IE8 is still used in order to compatible with legacy
systems. It is my point that, why bother to remove it if not harmful or
infeasible?

2015-12-31 10:19 GMT+08:00 Bryan Quigley <gquigs@gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gquigs@gmail.com');>>:

I've reported tdf#90386 last year, which was about IE8 didn't render
embedded LibreOffice properly.
From that bug, does that mean it doesn't really work properly anyway
since LO 4.4/IE8?

Eventually it obsoletes, but I prefer to consider this when facing some
directly related event.
 >( i.e EOL of Windows7, new toolchain ceasing ActiveX support, or
security
issue which lacks of engineer resource ) .

Microsoft recently changed their policy (going into effect Jan 2016),
to obsolete all but the latest IE on said platform.  Which means for
the great majority of (supported) users IE11 is the only supported
version.

[1]
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/microsoft-internet-explorer/en-us

On 31 Dec 2015, at 7:02 AM, Bryan Quigley <gquigs@gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gquigs@gmail.com');>> wrote:

Hi there,

Recently it was decided to remove the rest of NPAPI support [1] which
got me thinking about the other Windows specific plugin tech -
ActiveX.

It seems ActiveX is very much no longer recommended by Microsoft and
it seems to not work by default for IE10/11 on Windows 7 and up.  Any
objections to removing?

AFAICT this would just be removing embedding LO into IE.

Kind regards,
Bryan

[1] https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/20658/  and ESC discussion
here:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2015-December/071504.html
[2]
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/06/a-break-from-the-past-part-2-saying-goodbye-to-activex-vbscript-attachevent/
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