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LeoRidesHisBike t1_iucczrh wrote

Reply to comment by Bleusilences in Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support by Tweho

Some amazing 20/20 hindsight there. When ActiveX was a thing the web was much less hostile. The concept of ActiveX (let devs use existing COM controls and native code to do "real software" vs the limited things JavaScript could do) was pretty cool, just didn't anticipate how many security risks were hidden.

We didn't get that same level of efficiency in browsers again until Web Assembly... 20 years later.

Native software is so flexible/powerful that's the only safe thing to do is completely isolate it from browser execution. But that wasn't well known at the time.

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dkran t1_iudoout wrote

Macromedia flash suffered from this a lot too. Who knew how badly browsers needed to be 100% sandboxed back then? Java Applets, OCX, Flash. I think I still to this day have a severe reservation about installing anything that can interact with the web browser. I don’t even like links opening apps

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