Remove ActiveX from LibreOffice

[Mark Hung]

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?

2015-12-31 10:19 GMT+08:00 Bryan Quigley <gquigs at gmail.com>:

> >I've reported tdf#90386 last year, which was about IE8 didn't render
> >embedded LibreOffice properly.
> From that bug, does that mean it doesn't really work properly anyway
> since LO 4.4/IE8?
>
> >Eventually it obsoletes, but I prefer to consider this when facing some
> >directly related event.
>  >( i.e EOL of Windows7, new toolchain ceasing ActiveX support, or security
> issue which lacks of engineer resource ) .
>
> Microsoft recently changed their policy (going into effect Jan 2016),
> to obsolete all but the latest IE on said platform.  Which means for
> the great majority of (supported) users IE11 is the only supported
> version.
>
> [1]
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/microsoft-internet-explorer/en-us
>
> >> 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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Mark Hung
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