AW: [thelist] Compatibility between Mac, Linux, XP

Liorean Liorean at user.bip.net
Fri Feb 1 11:13:00 CST 2002


At 00:51 2002-02-02 +1100, Michael Pemberton wrote:
>Eike Pierstorff wrote:
>>- you can't pass variables to a flash movie with Javascript in Internet
>>Explorer/Mac Edition.
>This is not just with Flash.  This is due to M$ being lazy and not
>bothering to support LiveConnect.  They say that it is not possible on
>the MacOS (bulls**t!!!).  NS has no problems in this area.

In fact, Mozilla doesn't support LiveConnect (yet) either (on any platform).
 From what I gather it's a very complicated functionality to write and
maintain a sufficient security level while still allowing the coder to do
anything useful through it (see any IE/Win security holes page).

Oh, and MS weren't in any way lazy, they just prioritised. They simply
didn't want to push the deadline.

// Liorean




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