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Support for object tags with embedded ActiveX in Mozilla/Safari

I am using an object tag to load ActiveX extension controls like so:

<object name="controlcontainer" 
    width=320 
    height=240 
    codebase="./library.cab#version=1,2">
</object>

This works fine in IE, but we are looking into creating a port of our application for the iPad. Is there any way we can load ActiveX controls on the Mozilla/Safari platform?

Thanks,

Solution

  • ActiveX controls do not and will not ever work on Mac, the iPad, or any other non-microsoft platform. There is currently no method that I know of for creating a browser plugin of any kind on an iPad, though if there were it would be either a WebKit plugin or a NPAPI plugin.

    If you want to port your application to work on firefox, chrome, etc and work on Mac, you may want to look at the FireBreath project, but since Apple doesn't allow such software on the iPad you'll need to approach it a different way there.