ActiveX Documents
ActiveX Document technology enables
users to view non-HTML documents, such as ScadaPro Trends, Microsoft
Excel or Word files, through a Web browser. Internet Explorer supports
the use of ActiveX Documents. Netscape Navigator does not. The word
"document" in "ActiveX Document" is somewhat misleading.
While the genesis of ActiveX Documents reveals that a
Trends ActiveX Document is analogous to a Word document, when you create
a Trends ActiveX Document, the distinction between a "document" and an
application becomes genuinely blurred. While a traditional document
(such as a Word document) is static, ActiveX Documents need not be.
Using Trends, Channel monitor etc. you have complete applications with
the semantics of traditional documents.
In other words, you have the functionality of the
application, but the flexibility of a document's behaviour when a user
opens an ActiveX Document, he/she will not only have the full
functionality of an application, but the ability to persist and
distribute "copies" of the data intrinsic to the application. Thus, the
"document" is truly active.
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