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Before the advent of HTML5, it was difficult for developers to build sophisticated web apps or multimedia sites because the HTML and JavaScript features supported by web browsers at the time were more limited. There also wasn’t a standard way to build cross-platform compatible browser plug-ins to extend the functionality of the browser https://mobdro.bio/.
Basically ActiveX was a proprietary ‘Object Linking and Embedding’ technology developed by Microsoft which helped faciliate the exchanging of data/content between applications and the embedding of data/content from one application into another.
ActiveX was well known because it was integrated into Internet Explorer. It effectively allowed developers to build more advanced web applications (that could run inside a user’s web browser and be embedded into webpages), but the problem was that the web applications were only compatible with Internet Explorer. ActiveX controls also became infamous because they introduced all sorts of security risks by allowing developers to run potentially dangerous and malicious code in a user’s web browser simply by a user visiting a webpage.