So I believe that we haven’t come to any firm conclusion on this issue. There is a patch in gerrit currently, I’m a bit concerned it might be pushed before this is concretely decided.
What is our position on ActiveX? Michael raises a pretty good point, and there are others who have said they don’t want this removed. I had thought that this wasn’t going to happen now… Chris > On 5 Jan 2016, at 7:00 AM, Michael Stahl <mst...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 30.12.2015 21:02, Bryan Quigley 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? > > i don't think that a LO browser plugin is a terribly good idea, so no > objection to removing that. > >> AFAICT this would just be removing embedding LO into IE. > > however, isn't it the case that ActiveX components may not be used just > from IE, but from any Win32 application? > > that sounds like a potentially more useful embedding use-case, similar > to "officebean" and "LibreOfficeKit", but for developers that are > familiar with Win32 APIs. > > (or would that be something else that also happens to be called > "ActiveX" but is not actually implemented by LO's so_activex library?) > > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
