Re: Spartan won't support ActiveX controls or Browser Helper Objects
As a developer I love ActiveX and NPAPI (never used BHO) for what they allow me to do... rendering in a browser tab, open an Excel document in the browser, etc. But that's more "this is a cool nerdy thing to do" than "this is something useful or sensible".
There are still valid use cases for these type of technologies (despite what Google claim about JS being able to do everything) but they are very niche.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
