pantagruel wrote:
ActiveX Scripting has sometimes been used to refer to Active Scripting,
that is however an outmoded usage, I should probably have specified.
The terms are interchangeable - the "X" seems to have been dropped about
2000. Why is open to conjecture.
http://www.microsoft.com/mind/0297/activescripting.asp
so to clarify, what I am thinking of is an implementation that takes
the javascript implementation and adds extra functionality to it.
Extending objects at the Active Script level as opposed in a script
itself.
Do you mean extending the COM object to add extra functionality that can
be accessed by custom extensions to the language? According to the
referenced article, that is exactly what Active Scripting was supposed
to avoid. It suggests that you choose the script language that suits
and then use the appropriate COM object.
Presumably this is for an IE and Windows only intranet, so if you're
looking for a COM object to embed in IE (or any Windows scripting host),
why not use JScript - Microsoft has already added many extensions beyond
ECMAScript and the W3C DOM, including embedding your own COM objects.
Or you could use VB Script - choose your poison.
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Rob