Re:New Chrome feature frees Web apps from the browser
by mtgx on Monday July 23, 2012 @09:16AM
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You keep giving Microsoft's proprietary technologies as bad examples vs Google's open source ones, and keep saying it's the same. It's not. Other vendors weren't allowed to use ActiveX or Silverlight, nor could they help improve it, and fix their bugs.
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Re:New Chrome feature frees Web apps from the browser
by b0 on Monday July 23, 2012 @10:26AM
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Some little known facts which point to your assertions being wrong:
1. IE4 worked on UNIX (Solaris/HP-UX) and supported ActiveX.
2. MainSoft provided tools to port your ActiveX to UNIX (Usually a straight recompilation and little else required).
3. Other vendors are allowed to use Silverlight - look: http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
4. ActiveX,COM,MSRPC are all open specifications here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd208104(v=prot.10)
1-2 died because there was lack of demand.
3 died because there was lack of demand and MS decided it was the wrong route.
4 is used by MANY open source projects from Samba to tsclient.
As far as improving things goes, I've had many a thing fixed by Microsoft over the years. They ALWAYS solve a problem.