I found this article on Wikipedia. It's funny, because even though expressing a strong "point of view" ( wikispeak for bias) is strongly encouraged as long as your bias is PC ( like pro Mac), but it's not at all allowed when you write bias into an article that's for something on the no-biased information list. For example, talking about how good anything Microsoft makes will get you banned for the day for either vandalism, or edit war.
So when I saw a pro Internet Explorer article on Wikipedia, I, well, did something personal with a brick, that required TP to clean up.
Quote:
Component Object Model
A number of IE's security issues are related to components based on Component Object Model (COM).[citation needed]
More recently, other experts have noted that the dangers of ActiveX have been overstated and there are safeguards in place. In an April 2005 eWeek opinions column, Larry Seltzer stated: While there has been a striking lack of actual evidence that ActiveX is unsafe, there has been no shortage of baseless assertions and cheap shots against it. My favorite was the "Internet Exploder" incident in which Sun actually paid someone to write a malicious ActiveX control. The test system brought up all the warning dialogs about the program that you usually get and the Sun employee actually had the nerve to keep whacking on the enter key quickly so they would close as quickly as possible and didn't mention that there were any such warnings. Meanwhile, they also didn't mention that a signed Java applet could also perform dangerous privileged operations and would provide similar warnings. Most ActiveX criticism is simply uninformed, but this example was hypocritical and dishonest.[14]
Other browsers that use NPAPI as their extensibility mechanism are suffering the same problems.
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Also they say most of the criticism of IE comes from when you run it particular other software running at the same time. They talk about an IIS exploit. ( What dummy decided IIS should be enabled by default?)
This sort of glosses over the some of the more real complaints about IE. Especially the one that ****es me off. It reads web pages written in MSML instead of HTML. |
