Simon Willison's Weblog: activexhttp://simonwillison.net/2010-07-05T08:21:00+00:00Simon WillisonS.Korea ends Microsoft's online shopping monopoly2010-07-05T08:21:00+00:002010-07-05T08:21:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jul/5/skorea/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100701/tc_afp/skoreaitinternetbankingmicrosoft_20100701053219">S.Korea ends Microsoft's online shopping monopoly</a></strong></p>
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”.
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IE ActiveX("htmlfile") Transport, Part II2007-11-19T11:48:06+00:002007-11-19T11:48:06+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Nov/19/comet/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://cometdaily.com/2007/11/18/ie-activexhtmlfile-transport-part-ii/">IE ActiveX("htmlfile") Transport, Part II</a></strong></p>
Fascinating tricks for working around IE memory leaks using explicit CollectGarbage() calls and setInterval() to an empty function.
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