Remove ActiveX from LibreOffice

[Chris Sherlock]

I’m all for this. 

Chris

> On 31 Dec 2015, at 7:02 AM, Bryan Quigley <gquigs at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Recently it was decided to remove the rest of NPAPI support [1] which
> got me thinking about the other Windows specific plugin tech -
> ActiveX.
> 
> It seems ActiveX is very much no longer recommended by Microsoft and
> it seems to not work by default for IE10/11 on Windows 7 and up.  Any
> objections to removing?
> 
> AFAICT this would just be removing embedding LO into IE.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Bryan
> 
> [1] https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/20658/  and ESC discussion
> here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2015-December/071504.html
> [2] https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/06/a-break-from-the-past-part-2-saying-goodbye-to-activex-vbscript-attachevent/
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