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by Piskvorrr 4496 days ago
ActiveX is actually really cool and makes [whatever new feature] much more pleasant. I'm not surprised they want to keep the number of codepaths they have to support low. Have we been here before?
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untog 4496 days ago
The difference is that MSE is a W3 standard, as linked to in the original comment. It's not Google's own proprietary standard.
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Piskvorrr 4496 days ago
Ah, that is indeed a fair point; hopefully, Google will switch to capability checking instead of UA sniffing, once this is implemented in FF.
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RoryH 4496 days ago
Once they forked Webkit into Blink they took the bad path.
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thethimble 4495 days ago
What does Blink have anything to do with this? Blink is completely open source as is Webkit?
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