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[A Black Falcon]

Vb-script API, MSXML, ActiveX, and .NET

Good browsers don't bow to Microsoft and do everything they say just because "everyone uses IE", that's for sure...

The fact that Mozilla/Firefox/Seamonkey doesn't have ActiveX is one of the GOOD things about the browser. Horrible insecure thing...

I'm sure if the new release of FireFox ran vb-script (which could be implemented in as little as 5 minutes, thanks to vb-script activeX compiler API), old Bill would mess his pants with joy. But no FireFox had to follow standards and be with the browser "in" crowd, and as a result their years behind in modern browsing technology.

I look at it from exactly the opposite perspective -- if only Microsoft thought that following standards was a good thing we could have one, but they think that they can just do their own thing and make everyone follow along, so we don't... and the result is incompatibility sometimes between the two systems -- but the answer is not to abandon the standards, certainly. That would give Microsoft the victory and admit that MS can dictate online system policy, somehting very much against the whole concept of browsers like Mozilla/Firefox... Microsoft is the problem, not the web standards. Just because you think MS is the best and deserves to make everyone on the internet follow its designs doesn't make it so. :)

Microsoft has done some amazing things with their browser,

Sometimes only four or five years after the competition thought about and probably implemented the idea! :D