Re: literal meaning of the word activex
From: Igor Tandetnik (itandetnik_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/17/04
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:45:50 -0400
"yogesh" <ypjofficial@indiatimes.com> wrote in message
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> why the activex controls are called so?
Because marketing department thought it sounded good. Don't read too
much into it.
Well, X probably stands for eXtension, since the technology has its
roots in VBX - Visual Basic eXtensions. First, they were called OLE
controls for some time - some of them still have .ocx file extension. At
that time, OLE was interchangeable with COM. Later, the meanig of OLE
has narrowed to the original meaning of Object Linking and Embedding -
that is, technologies concerned with compound documents. That's probably
when ActiveX term was invented.
> One website says that it is marketing gimmick from MS.But then also
> there should be some meaning to choose this particular combination.
Why must a trademark necessarily be meaningful? What do you think
"Microsoft" means, for that matter? Their software is rarely small, let
alone microscopic.
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Igor Tandetnik
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and wrong." H.L. Mencken
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