On 8/4/2011 12:26, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> None of these are exactly "small" or "obscure" or "primarily for Linux". And
> yet, no COM.

Well, there's another reason people rage about IE still being popular for 
intranet purposes. It's because people writing the new browsers ignore the 
environment they're in.

The problem with COM is that it's not something you can really paste on 
after the fact. If your system isn't very Model-view-controller, it's hard 
to make it interface with a COM interface.

> But in trying to come up with a list... yeah, most of the stuff I have is
> FOSS, which probably explains why no COM.

That and people who are doing firefox development don't *expect* you to use 
it in an automated way, or they expect you to automate it solely thru 
javascript.

Anyone building something for a *business* to use is going to use COM for 
the interface on Windows.

> Now, aside from that matter, the thing which really puzzles me is this: If
> something *does* support COM, how the hell do you *use* it?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366757%28VS.85%29.aspx


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