Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
> There are only *two* obvious reasons to use ActiveX, and that's
> because there's no really elegant way otherwise to run Java applets.
> Therefore, the Java runtime instaills itself as an ActiveX control,
> weird-ass crappy classid and all.
Clearly it's not the /only/ way, otherwise how would one run Java
applets on Firefox under GNU/Linux?
> The other one involves Flash and is much the same.
Ditto.
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K.
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