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2 items tagged “activex”

2010

S.Korea ends Microsoft’s online shopping monopoly. The crazy rules mandating Active X based encryption for government and e-commerce sites have finally been dropped, after the Korea Communications Commission found them “unfit for a new Internet environment involving smartphones”.

# 5th July 2010, 8:21 am / activex, korea, microsoft, recovered

2007

IE ActiveX(“htmlfile”) Transport, Part II. Fascinating tricks for working around IE memory leaks using explicit CollectGarbage() calls and setInterval() to an empty function.

# 19th November 2007, 11:48 am / activex, comet, htmlfile, ie, javascript, memoryleaks