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missed_sla t1_iubwnr1 wrote

Reply to comment by 9-11GaveMe5G in Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support by Tweho

I know for a fact that some federal agencies and their contractors still require IE compatibility. Now, we're able to use IE mode in Edge, but it still uses activex and requires punching some ransomware-sized holes in security.

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Bleusilences t1_iuc5scc wrote

Activex what a fucking joke and waste of time that was.

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LeoRidesHisBike t1_iucczrh wrote

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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Fancy-You3022 t1_iucdm8u wrote

QuickBooks Pro Desktop 222 is still dependent on IE Active X. Tried disabling IE on a computer as a part of the Hardening process and QuickBooks refused to run until I enabled it.

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dkran t1_iudoxtn wrote

Yeah I got a letter or email from intuit explaining this a few months ago. I really don’t like the fact that one of the most major accounting software programs in existence is reliant on such legacy technology, but then again airplanes are still programmed with floppy disks

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thecstep t1_iuf5imh wrote

Yep. And IE mode requires IE to be installed.

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