An Id Guy ActiveX
By Daniel Miessler on January 17th, 2005: Tagged as General
Brian Hook, know for his work at Id, had this to say about programming in ActiveX:
I’ve been doing some ActiveX coding on the side for a couple days, stuff I’m not familiar with, and I’m just flat out appalled at how bad that entire API and design is. I can make an OCX that basically formats your hard drive, stick it on a Web page with a tag, and if your security settings are set low enough, you’ll start formatting your hard drive the minute you visit my Web page.
Yet somehow Firefox is managing to become successful without this feature…