<div dir="ltr">Unless I'm much mistaken, the ActiveX control does almost exactly the same thing that the browser plugin did for Netscape. <div><br></div><div>Given that in Edge Microsoft will not be supporting ActiveX plugins any more, isn't the justification for removing the ActiveX control the same as for remove the NSAPI plugin?</div><div><br></div><div>Incidentally, in the bug references, if I had to hazard a guess, the ocx needs to be registered manually. </div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 3:13 AM, Thorsten Behrens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thb@documentfoundation.org" target="_blank">thb@documentfoundation.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Mark Hung wrote:<br>
> A valid use case is to read the uploaded documents on SharePoint server in<br>
> intranet.<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>Yeah. Unless this is not working anywhere anymore, let's keep it for<br>
the while - seems it's useful at least in some cases. And the cost of<br>
maintaining it is currently near zero, no?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
-- Thorsten<br>
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