ActiveX or client installer

From: Benjamin van den Broek (allstar_ben_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/30/05 

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:29:43 +0200

Hi all,

The company I work for has build a completely browser based application. As
a sales argument we say that you don't need to install a (fat) client on
your user machines. However, our application only runs in the browser if you
allow a browser plug-in (ActiveX) component to be installed. Some people say
that allowing an ActiveX component is in principal the same as providing a
client installer.

The following questions:
1) Do companies differentiate between client installers and allowing ActiveX
components, or are the two the same to them?
2) Does a Browser plug-in require more setup (deployment) and maintenance
cost than a client installer?
3) Is it possible (from a client viewpoint) to limit the ActiveX component
(f.e. allow everything, except file-system access)

Thanx in advance!

Regards,
Ben

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