Re: ActiveX versus Client Installer

From: Malke (noreply_at_invalid.com)
Date: 03/30/05 

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 05:55:19 -0800

Ben wrote:

> 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)
>

Please see the detailed and useful answer you got in the other
newsgroup. Please do not multipost. Crosspost if you must, judiciously.
Here is a link explaining about multi- and crossposting.

http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

Malke 

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