On 4 Aug 2005 at 16:43, Don Penlington wrote:

> Anna wrote:
> >And I understand that there are some sites that will ONLY render with IE =
> >because of activeX.  Are there a lot of sites like this?>>
>
> Not many, in my experience, as ActiveX has so many security risks.  Anyway,
> most people with IE would have ActiveX disabled in their security settings.

  In my experience, the sites that absolutely won't work with Firefox rely
on Microsoft's proprietary alternative to JavaScript -- I think they call it
something like BasicScript (that doesn't sound quite right, but for some
reason I have an impression that it is more closely related to Visual BASIC
(and the derived scripting languages in Word, Excel, Access, ...) than
JavaScript is to Java)).

David Gillett

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