Hi,
I have disabled ActiveX plugins and controls in my IE-browser (due to the large amount of self-installing spy-ware etc. and when I go to wikipedia sites like:
http://de.wikipedia.org/ http://nl.wikipedia.org/
I get a popup window with 'Do you want to allow software such as ActiveX controls and plug-ins to run?'
This mainly seems to be necessary to show the top left logo to be shown.
Wouldn't it be better for an open source standards based site not to require MS-dependent technology?
Greetings, Jaap
Jaap van Ganswijk (ganswijk@xs4all.nl) [050425 18:52]:
I have disabled ActiveX plugins and controls in my IE-browser (due to the large amount of self-installing spy-ware etc. and when I go to wikipedia sites like: http://de.wikipedia.org/ http://nl.wikipedia.org/ I get a popup window with 'Do you want to allow software such as ActiveX controls and plug-ins to run?' Wouldn't it be better for an open source standards based site not to require MS-dependent technology?
This isn't required by the site. I suggest you run a thorough spyware and antivirus check again. And stop using IE for anything as far as possible.
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
I get a popup window with 'Do you want to allow software such as ActiveX controls and plug-ins to run?'
This isn't required by the site. I suggest you run a thorough spyware and antivirus check again. And stop using IE for anything as far as possible.
I would like to point your attention to "such as".
This is a wild guess but I remember my MSIE to rely on external plug-ins to display png files properly. This would fit under the MSIE-question above.
Mathias
Mathias Schindler (neubau@presroi.de) [050425 19:08]:
David Gerard wrote:
I get a popup window with 'Do you want to allow software such as ActiveX controls and plug-ins to run?'
This isn't required by the site. I suggest you run a thorough spyware and antivirus check again. And stop using IE for anything as far as possible.
I would like to point your attention to "such as". This is a wild guess but I remember my MSIE to rely on external plug-ins to display png files properly. This would fit under the MSIE-question above.
There has been at least some PNG support in IE since 4.0 betas:
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngapbr.html#msie-win-unix
- although I do vaguely recall some versions of either IE or Netscape 4 using, for example, the QuickTime plugin to render PNGs.
- d.
On 25/04/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
There has been at least some PNG support in IE since 4.0 betas:
With the emphasis on "some" - for whatever reason, Microsoft never got round to implementing the rather useful feature of the PNG standard that lets you add an "alpha" layer for transparency, rather than specifying one colour as transparent in the palette. This is particularly useful for anti-aliasing something when you don't know what background it will be on (and given that colour-matching is very unreliable, that's most of the time).
On 4/25/05, Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
[...] Microsoft never got round to implementing the rather useful feature of the PNG standard that lets you add an "alpha" layer for transparency, rather than specifying one colour as transparent in the palette.
From the IE development people: "IE7 beta 1 – A few details…"
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/04/22/410963.aspx
though that won't be very useful for backward-compatible software like MediaWiki.
At 2005-04-25 11:10, Mathias Schindler wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
I get a popup window with 'Do you want to allow software such as ActiveX controls and plug-ins to run?'
This isn't required by the site. I suggest you run a thorough spyware and antivirus check again. And stop using IE for anything as far as possible.
I would like to point your attention to "such as".
This is a wild guess but I remember my MSIE to rely on external plug-ins to display png files properly. This would fit under the MSIE-question above.
Oops, you and Brion Vibber seem to be right! Again Bill Gates pulled one over on me...
Brion: As regards installing other browsers: I have always been a big Netscape fan, but when MSIE had won the browser battle (for the time being) I stopped torturing myself after a while and started using IE as the default browser under Windows. I have a lot of browsers installed under Windows (Mozilla, Netscape, Opera) and under Linux (KDE and Mozilla and probably more).
When I write code myself I try to make it as simple and cross-browser usable as possible but I don't like wasting time seeing sites other than intended just because the writers don't use standards.
And if I had the illusion that I could change the world by using a more open source browser I certainly would...
Greetings, Jaap
Jaap van Ganswijk wrote:
I get a popup window with 'Do you want to allow software such as ActiveX controls and plug-ins to run?'
This mainly seems to be necessary to show the top left logo to be shown.
Wouldn't it be better for an open source standards based site not to require MS-dependent technology?
Install an open source standards-based browser like Firefox and you'll be happier. ;)
Microsoft's leading-edge technology requires a funky DirectX filter hack to display alpha-transparent PNG images correctly. In some configurations this triggers an ActiveX warning. Go figure.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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