Remove ActiveX from LibreOffice

[Chris Sherlock]

In a word: mantainence.

ActiveX is a failed idea by Microsoft, and in fact there is always a burden
in maintaining things that aren't seen as at all useful or even desirable.

We removed plugins for a similar reason.

Chris

On Thursday, December 31, 2015, Mark Hung <marklh9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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