Re:Misleading headline, and ActiveX (Score 1)

This is a general response to all the crap I see posted here about ActiveX 1. The whole argument is stupid beyond belief. So many of the same people who are so frightened of an ActiveX control from a site that is registered and easy to hold accountable, have no problem downloading and installing, or even worse off some blank CD someone handed them, a complete EXE that has equal ability to do massive damage. Its retarded, get over it. You have very little control over and EXE, at least with IE you have some control. For a developer there is NO DIFFERENCE between ActiveX and COM. Check your system32 folder - chock full of COM components! (OK, so an ActiveX Control is an OCX, not a DLL, thats splitting hairs.) 2. I am an application developer. You puny web site designers can get along fine with you Flash and your Firefox. My clients EXPECT the same capabilities from my browser based applications that they would expect from thier installed desktop applications. You cannot do with without ActiveX or active scripting like VBScript. Just cannot happen. Those of you who would beg to differ have NOT developed the app I have - and likely could not! 3. If you are a blog reading, FaceBook visiting weenie, FireFox is for you. If you are a professional developing professional applications to be used by professional and corporate concerns who want their apps web based, you WILL use ActiveX or you will create inferior products. One off topic point. I saw someone make a deal on someone's spelling. The true sign of a person who lacks superior skill and knowledge in programming and has to resort to high school crap instead. My spelling is atrocious (probably spelled that wrong!) and my typing is worse. My debugger find my typing based mistakes and I have plenty of people of lesser programming skill to correct my spelling mistakes. I love developing, by I really don't like much of the development community. Too much bullshit. I thank the Digital Gods everyday that I can figure out my own problems or learn from light tutorials so I don't have to post questions in forums. Reading forums gives one the impression that programmers are the dumbest people in the world. Dumb questions, even dumber answers. And God forbid someone asks a question someone asked 2 years ago! I wish Google would exclude forums from searches. I will leave you with a tip. If you HAVE to find a .NET answer in a forum, look for a C# forum. The VB.NET forums are chock full of the blind leading the stupid. Better yet, just read Scott Mitchell, one of the few out their that doesn't just regurgitate MDSN articles. )