ActiveX question

[NickFitz]

It runs on Intel Macs, with Windows installed.

Correction: it runs on computers running Windows.

Apple hardware running Windows software is just hardware running Windows software. A Mac with Windows installed on a separate partition is a Mac "with Windows installed"; but when running OS X your "solution" wouldn't work.

The web is platform-agnostic by definition. Deploying a platform-dependent solution on the web is, by definition, fail.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is going to come round your house and stamp on your kittens for this

[VectraMan]

The web is platform-agnostic by definition. Deploying a platform-dependent solution on the web is, by definition, fail.

That's lovely, but what's the alternative? Not everything is filling out forms and pressing submit (and if Tim Berners Lee had had his way HTML wouldn't even have had that).

YouTube serves a billion videos per day. I wonder if all those people care that they're betraying Berners Lee's vision of a truly platform-agnostic web?

[d000hg]

The web is platform-agnostic by definition. Deploying a platform-dependent solution on the web is, by definition, fail.

Balls it is. There are still plenty of devices without JavaScript capabilities (older phones) or that cannot support AJAX. There are many devices which can't run Flash properly/at all (games consoles).

The web is just a place where data is stored... not some idealistic paradise.