Re: ActiveX developed in naive times?
>They weren't more naive times.
totally true. +10
i also remember how long it took MS to disable by-default autorun.
and what was it, Melissa or I love you, that finally got them to turn active email VBA off, after telling the security community precisely that they could f*** off because it was a convenient feature demanded by "their users marketing dept"?
Pre-capable JS/Java/Flash nasties, ActiveX was _the_ pest wrt security, perceived as almost as bad as downloading random Exes and running them. Luckily the web wasn't near as populated w nasties as now - but not through any good effort on MS' end.
@BongoJoe - revisionism in either bad faith or cluelessness, not sure which. Not many people w half of half a clue thought like you in those days.