Remember Katherine,
ActiveX opens up Windows to security issues. Last numbers I saw being touted around had total Windows viruses at over 97,000. Number of Mac OS X viruses
Zero, there are many reasons for this, one of which is the default security build into OS X and Safari.
I know it bites, we had to implement Blackboard at our university, but my section was tied in under the Marketing Dept so we all had Macs. Luckily I had a PC I used for browser compatibility checking so I could do Blackboard work on that.
The next worst offender outside of the university system is the real estate multiple listing service. Some tard wanted a really cool looking menu that they couldn't do in java so they wrote an ActiveX control so the web page is a mixture of menus in html/java, and the ActiveX menu so now it won't run on anything but IE in Windows. Of course you could fill out the data in the forms to perform a search without ActiveX but the tard also put the submit button on the ActiveX control leaving everyone SOL.
I keep VPC on the system for emergency use which is still rather rare. Last time I brought up Windows under VPC was about 3 weeks ago.
Jan J.