Re: Remove ActiveX from LibreOffice

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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