David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Remember kids, if you’re not writing your web apps in VBScript and ActiveX then you’re going to be left behind!
gaytabaseI did as well, and I was told that IE was so much better for web experience that any web app that didn't use these features would seem primitive in comparison. It turned out that ActiveX was a security nightmare and most companies started blocking it entirely except for intranet sites with allow-listed GUIDs, and VBScript ended up being harder to use than JavaScript and less maintainable. Both locked you into an ecosystem entirely controlled by a company that did not have incentives aligned with yours.
Sounds similar to some other technologies I could mention.
@david_chisnall ah but the best bit was after i'd already ditched both, i went and worked at nokia and they bought coverity and it was still activex!
@dysfun I didn't use Coverity until about 2010, and it wasn't by then (though it was a web app that tried really hard to pretend to be a Windows app, irrespective of what your underlying platform was).
@david_chisnall hmm let's see. that would have been around the same time i went to nokia. maybe it wasn't coverity but something similar. anyway, big fucking activex control for the entire "site"