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At best that takes care of the security issues. The other thing that makes ActiveX an affront to the web is the platform lock-in.

x86 code is not suitable as a web standard. (And neither is the LLVM intermediate representation, for reasons expounded on in e.g. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/4...)

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...and Windows Installers are a lousy way to get someone to be able to run your program.

I see Native Client as being an extremely nice solution to several issues at once:

- runs fast

- the programs don't need an installer

- I can trust a Native Client program (that's me personally)

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