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Old 2nd July 2008
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Real Name: Robert Backhaus
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Another thing that needs to be fumigated, cremated and buried at sea.

[bad]ActiveX[/bad]

I tech support an internet café, running (I am very much afraid) XP machines. We have constant complaints about random photo upload activex controls not showing. The only way to install these is to log in as admin, log in to the site (even if you prefer abominations like facebook didn't exist), go to the photo upload page, and allow the activex to install. On every machine. For every service you can't avoid not supporting. Often for each language. Until they create a new version of the rotten thing.

Realistically, You just can't do it.

Facebook even has the applet correctly reimplemented as a java applet for Firefox - But they don't use it for IE, so we still have complaints.

Bah. IE is teh loozors.
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