Neither do we normally -

vneal — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:14:55 +0000

Neither do we normally - despite us advising against using this code because of known cross browser support, the client is insisting we still use it!!
No doubt it will be our fault when he see's for himself that it doesn't work properly lol!
Thanks for your help anyway!

Hi vneal, First of all,

decibel.places — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:14:34 +0000

Hi vneal,

First of all, welcome to TWF!

I do not use program with ActiveX - perhaps someone else can answer that.

Thats great thankyou, i will

vneal — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:53:03 +0000

Thats great thankyou, i will try this out tomorrow. Just out of interest, do you know whether ActiveX is inherently present in all windows machines?

Perhaps this will help (from

decibel.places — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:47:50 +0000

Perhaps this will help (from a Google search) - original post

Finding out whether an active x is installed is pretty straight forward, you just declare it as per normal and then just check it is present. The snippet below will redirect if MSXML4 is not installed.

Code:

<OBJECT id="MSXML4" classid="clsid:88d969c0-f192-11d4-a65f-0040963251e5" codebase="http://www..../msxml4.cab#version=4,10,9404,0" type="application/x-oleobject" STYLE="display: none" standby="ww"> Alternative Text </OBJECT> <script> //if msxml4 is not installed if( !document.MSXML4 ){ document.loction.href = "SomePage.html" } </script>

NOTE: there is an error in the original code, the closing brace at the end was after the closing script tag, I corrected it here