Enquiry Reg. Browser Support for ActiveX Controls

[Krishna Roy]

Dear all,
As a part of a project requirement i developed one activex control and made it as a cab file. Now the actual requirement is that i need to embed it into a html script and run on a server machine.

The problem that i faced is that i am able to download this control onto any machine provided the security setting for the IEbrowser on that machine should be set to low.

Can this be achieved through my program? if so how?. and one more request is that can this activex controls run on a Netscape Browser. if this is to be achieved then what are the changes that are to be made in my code.
pls. help me out in this regard.
thanks in advance.
krishna roy.

My understanding was that if the control is all set to go, a browser hitting the site will automatically download and install it. I don't think ActiveX controls will work in Netscape.

Good luck,

Mike

[Mikesc]

You can't change the security settings on the client's browser. Only the user can. This is for their protection.
You could rewrite or convert ( I think there is software to do this ) your control into a Java Bean then test if the client has a browser 4.0 or > (I believe) that can use it. This would seem to be the best choice to me as both IE and Netscape support java. Java is also free to download from Sun's site. And since security is built into the Java language, I don't think IE's security setting will balk at the bean.