Does ASP.NET require ActiveX or not?
<p>Does Asp.Net require ActiveX to make Ajax calls? I suspect it does because without setting "initialize and script activeX controls not marked as safe" in IE options ASP.NET UpdatePanels don't work. Am I correct?</p>

<p><strong>A very important edit here</strong></p>

<p>I haven't had any doubts about IE6 really. But I was able to reproduce this even on IE8 (Windows 7). Try setting IE security level to high. After that you will have to set:</p>

<ul>
<li>Initialize and script activeX controls not marked as safe</li>
<li>Submit non-encrypted form data</li>
<li>Active scripting</li>
</ul>

<p>to be able to use Asp.NET UpdatePanel. The later two are OK, but the first one... I remind you this is IE8</p>
