[thelist] LiveConnect question

[John Dowdell]

At 1:31 PM 11/8/0, Peter Barrett wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone had found a way around the Mac/IE
> problem with Liveconnect

Sorry, no... IE/Mac doesn't offer a way for its scripts to talk with
objects in its pages.


Sidenotes:

--  LiveConnect is Netscape's pioneering way of doing this, requiring Java,
and supported in 3.0 versions or greater.

--  IE3/Win was the first Microsoft browser to support a *parallel*
ability, where VBScript could talk with ActiveX Controls.

--  IE5/Mac is the first IE/Mac that lets JScript query which plugins are
installed, but this is different than sending or receiving messages between
JScript and plugins.

--  Some IE/Mac versions can support "javascript:" style pseudo-URLs from
plugins, but not all versions do... spotty.
    (They all support such URLs from the HTML page itself... it's from
objects in the page where support is catch-as-catch can.)

--  If you're trying to communicate with a Java applet, then last time I
checked IE/Win could talk to applets, but would only hear events from
ActiveX Controls... MS docs used to recommend recompiling the Java applet
as a COM ActiveX Control, which sorta missed the point.... ;-)
    (This may have changed in recent versions without my knowledge... hard
to find this info either way, considering that Java VMs are often large
plugins now.)

--  The Mozilla project overhauls Netscape's original LiveConnect method,
and plugins will need to be recompiled for these new environments once
released.


jd






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