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List:       firewalls-gc
Subject:    Re: Hosting ActiveX applets
From:       "Bill DeGan" <bdegan () ticnet ! com>
Date:       1997-06-12 9:32:20
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Glad to hear such honesty.  There is so much hype with these tools and
no one is asking if they are necessary to get the job done.  The additional
complication that is added off sets the value gained.  Thanks again.

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> From: Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
> To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
> Cc: Russ.Cooper@RC.on.ca; firewalls@GreatCircle.COM
> Subject: Re: Hosting ActiveX applets
> Date: Tuesday, June 10, 1997 10:20 AM
> 
> > I've seen very little real functionality in either Java or ActiveX,
> > and usually leave all that turned off.  I find theres fewer dancing
> > rabbits on my screen.
> 
> Indeed. The only time I've turned on active content in my browser is when
> some idiot has set up some kind of ActivX/Java applet to browse his site,
> so I've had to turn it on to do my job.
> 
> I haven't noticed that any of these applets have added any new
fuctionality.
> Oh, it's cute to have the buttons change when the mouse moves over them,
> but I can work just as effectively without that. They could do everything
> they did in the applet with CGI, or even static pages.
> 
> I disable all active content on all browsers when I install them, and my
> firewall effectively breaks Java if the users turn them back on. I
recommend
> that anyone else interested in browsing the net do the same thing.
> 

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