javascript to enable activex control possible?

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i'm confusing there is any possible way to enable activex control in ie using javascript only...for read .csv file client side purpose...

Posted 18-May-12 10:23am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-May-12 17:43pm

Why would you want it? Just to read .csv? You can do it without ActiveX, or in other way you would like on the server side. Don't use ActiveX, seriously. Bad thing.
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-05-18T11:41:00

Of course it's possible, but you want to avoid it by all means. First, this is Microsoft's proprietary. Who needs to use incompatible stuff, when it comes to the Web? Also, it's very unsafe. A technology-savvy user will never trust a Web page if it uses ActiveX as it can do just about anything to the client system, unlike Java or "pure" JavaScript. ActiveX is only good when it can be 100% disabled in client software.

You can use ActiveX object through the HTML tag <object>.

(Don't do it.)

Please see:
http://www.w3schools.com/web/web_glossary.asp?output=print[^] (locate "ActiveX" entry),
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/dom_obj_object.asp[^],
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_object.asp?output=print[^],
http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_object.asp[^],
http://help.dottoro.com/ljiujjib.php[^].

—SA