uncaught Reference error: activexobject is not defined

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Hi,

I am using the activexobject in my project it works fine in IE.

I know this is the microsoft control.
I want to run the project in Mozila and Chrome but it showing the error as Activexobject is not defined.

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");

Thanks in advance

Posted 29-Jun-11 1:29am

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Updated 7-Jul-17 2:42am

Dalek Dave

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-29T01:47:00

Eventhough totally agree with JSOP's answer there is one thing you can try to also get it to run on FireFox. There is a plugin that enables FireFox to host ActiveX control elements. See here: http://code.google.com/p/ff-activex-host/[^]. You'll have to experiment a bit I guess, but maybe this plugin will help you to get it to work with FireFox. For google chrome you might be interested in this link: http://www.chromeplus.org/[^].

For cross browser compatiblity reasons I strongly discourage the use of ActiveX on a web site though.

Best Regards,

—MRB

Leeor Aharon · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-17T02:48:00

Solution 3

Actually, the google code project reference by Manfred, support google Chrome as well.

It also provides some security measures such as site locking, CLSID/PROGID locking, and incompatibility with IE-style HTML/JS code for creating ActiveX controls.

Disclaimer: I developed and am maintaining that project.

Posted 17-Jul-11 2:48am

Leeor Aharon

Updated 17-Jul-11 2:56am

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Espen Harlinn 17-Jul-11 9:45am

I'm fairly certain I'll find a use for that plugin, my 5

Espen Harlinn · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-17T04:00:00

Your problem can be solved using jQuery:
http://knol.google.com/k/xml-parsing-using-jquery#[^]

Or you can do something similar to:

C#

function parseXML(str) {
    if (str == null) return null;
    if ($.trim(str) == "") return createDocument();

    var dom = str;
    if ($.browser.msie) {
        dom = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
        dom.async = "false";
        dom.loadXML(str);
    }
    else if (typeof (DOMParser) != "undefined") {
        var parser = new DOMParser();
        try {

            dom = parser.parseFromString(str, "text/xml");
        } catch (e) { };

    }

First try the MS way, then try what usually works with other browsers ...

Best regards
Espen Harlinn

#realJSOP · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-29T01:34:00

Solution 1

No browsers support ActiveX except IE. Why? Because nobody in their right mind would allow an activeX component to be loaded from a web site unless the network is tightly controlled, and the activeX component is from a locally controlled source.

Posted 29-Jun-11 1:34am

#realJSOP

Updated 29-Jun-11 1:35am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Jun-11 17:55pm

Absolutely. My 5.
--SA

Espen Harlinn 17-Jul-11 9:52am

Using ActiveX based components in IE is quite common for corporate sites - like AspenTech IP.21 Process Browser - http://www.aspentech.com/products/aspen-web21.aspx