Remove ActiveX from LibreOffice

[Mark Hung]

Hi all,

I lost my memory and messed tdf#90386 with another thing.
It didn't seem to work properly since IE8 / LO4.2.2, though I did try to
fix it.



2016-01-01 12:17 GMT+08:00 Chris Sherlock <chris.sherlock79 at gmail.com>:

> Unless I'm much mistaken, the ActiveX control does almost exactly the same
> thing that the browser plugin did for Netscape.
>
> 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?
>
> Incidentally, in the bug references, if I had to hazard a guess, the ocx
> needs to be registered manually.
>
> Chris
>
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 3:13 AM, Thorsten Behrens <
> thb at documentfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Mark Hung wrote:
>> > A valid use case is to read the uploaded documents on SharePoint server
>> in
>> > intranet.
>> > 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 ) .
>> >
>> Yeah. Unless this is not working anywhere anymore, let's keep it for
>> the while - seems it's useful at least in some cases. And the cost of
>> maintaining it is currently near zero, no?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -- Thorsten
>>
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>


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Mark Hung
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