Re: ActiveX plugin in Safari in Mac

In article <1184864308.838628.120770@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Raul <umesh.narain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I work on an internet application where users can take printouts of
available coupons/tokens from the website by selecting them. The print
option is written as an activex browser plugin. So this print option
works fine in IE on windows OS. But when the same website is opened on
safari in Mac OS, the print option doesnt work because activex is not
supported in Mac and in safari. Now my question is, what are the other
possibilities/solutions to handle this problem? I came across iprint
plugin for Mac. Can we use this? Please let me know your thoughts and
alternatives. I will be really thankful to you all.

As others have said, ActiveX is specific and proprietary to Microsoft
Windows only. I'm not even sure it is supported in any browser except
Internet Explorer.

That said, I would have to say that it is simply a very bad practice
to use it in the first place. A web site that depends on ActiveX can
only be used from Windows, and probably only from Internet Explorer
under windows. This defeats one of the important points of the WWW,
which was that the whole format was to be standardized so that anyone
could access it from any computer, running any reasonably well-written
browser.


Even with less proprietary means of client-side processing, such as
JavaShi^H^H^Hcript or java applets, , I really think that there ought to
be an obligation on the part of anyone considering making use of them to
seriously consider whether they are really necessary, and if not, to use
more basic methods.

Why not just render the coupon in straight HTML, and let the user
print it using his browser's print command? That's tghe simplest, most
basic way to do something, and when you muck it up with
JavaShi^H^H^Hcript, Java applets, ActiveX, Flash, Shockwave, or any
similar technologies, all you really accomplish is to guarantee that
some of your users are going to have trouble getting it to render
correctly in whatever browser they are using.

I regard these things as tools for people who care more for producing
web sites that are flashy and fancy, than for producing web sites that
actually offer usable content in a usable form.

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