<div dir="ltr"><div>tdf#90386 is about IE8 only, IE9 and above do not have the issue. In the case I reported, IE8 is still used in order to compatible with legacy systems. It is my point that, why bother to remove it if not harmful or infeasible?  </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-12-31 10:19 GMT+08:00 Bryan Quigley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gquigs@gmail.com" target="_blank">gquigs@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>>I've reported tdf#90386 last year, which was about IE8 didn't render<br>
>embedded LibreOffice properly.<br>
</span>From that bug, does that mean it doesn't really work properly anyway<br>
since LO 4.4/IE8?<br>
<span><br>
>Eventually it obsoletes, but I prefer to consider this when facing some<br>
>directly related event.<br>
 >( i.e EOL of Windows7, new toolchain ceasing ActiveX support, or security<br>
issue which lacks of engineer resource ) .<br>
<br>
</span>Microsoft recently changed their policy (going into effect Jan 2016),<br>
to obsolete all but the latest IE on said platform.  Which means for<br>
the great majority of (supported) users IE11 is the only supported<br>
version.<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/microsoft-internet-explorer/en-us" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/microsoft-internet-explorer/en-us</a><br>
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>> On 31 Dec 2015, at 7:02 AM, Bryan Quigley <<a href="mailto:gquigs@gmail.com">gquigs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi there,<br>
>><br>
>> Recently it was decided to remove the rest of NPAPI support [1] which<br>
>> got me thinking about the other Windows specific plugin tech -<br>
>> ActiveX.<br>
>><br>
>> It seems ActiveX is very much no longer recommended by Microsoft and<br>
>> it seems to not work by default for IE10/11 on Windows 7 and up.  Any<br>
>> objections to removing?<br>
>><br>
>> AFAICT this would just be removing embedding LO into IE.<br>
>><br>
>> Kind regards,<br>
>> Bryan<br>
>><br>
>> [1] <a href="https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/20658/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/20658/</a>  and ESC discussion<br>
>> here: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2015-December/071504.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2015-December/071504.html</a><br>
>> [2] <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/06/a-break-from-the-past-part-2-saying-goodbye-to-activex-vbscript-attachevent/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/06/a-break-from-the-past-part-2-saying-goodbye-to-activex-vbscript-attachevent/</a><br>
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