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Thursday, July 01, 2004

Apple’s ActiveX

What Do I Know: "Ever since Dashboard was unveiled at the WWDC this past week, I’ve been following the slow leaks of technical information about the widgets (er, gadgets), with most of the good stuff coming from Dave Hyatt. Then this morning working examples of the gadgets appeared online. Between viewing the source code of the gadgets, cross-referencing Hyatt’s posts, and attempting to use the gadgets in any browser other than Safari, one point became painfully clear — Apple is launching their own, proprietary, non-standard browser API that looks, smells, and feels like ActiveX. For years I have railed against ActiveX, due to the proprietary, closed nature of the API ... but it would be hypocritical to say that Apple’s Dashboard controls are any different from Microsoft’s attempts at extending the browser to the operating system."

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