what is alternative for activex in mozilla?

[nirmalsingh]

Hai all..

ActiveXObject(" MSXML2.DOMDocum ent.3.0"); is not supported in mozilla. is there is any alternative solution to resolve this?
My code

function openEditor()
{
    try
    {
        var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0");
        var xslDoc = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0");

        xmlDoc.async = false;
        xmlDoc.validateOnParse = false;
        xmlDoc.resolveExternals = false;
        xmlDoc.load("../App_XMLFile/quotation_print.xml");

        xslDoc.async = false;
        xslDoc.validateOnParse = false;
        xslDoc.resolveExternals = false;
        xslDoc.load("../XSLT/quotation_print.xsl");

        initRTE(xmlDoc.transformNode(xslDoc), 'example.css');
    }
    catch(e)
    {
        alert(e.message);
    }
}

It works well in IE.
Thanx in advance.
-Nirmal Singh B

[gits]

hi ...

the alternative is to code your own component in pure js/dhtml-manner for all other browsers ... and use that for IE too ;) in case you want that. or to search for a cross-browser-ready component out in the web and simply reuse it. there is no ActiveX-counterpart in any browser ... so you shouldn't use that, except you have a strict IE-environment.

kind regards

[acoder]

You could use ActiveX in Firefox via a plugin, but it's not officially supported. See this article paying particular attention to the warnings/notes. The plug-in only works with specific versions of Firefox, so I wouldn't recommend it. In any case, even if you do get it to work, you're still only left with support for two browsers on Windows. What about Opera, Safari, Firefox on other operating systems and many other browsers?

[pbmods]

Heya, Nirmal.

You may find this article to be helpful.

[drhowarddrfine]

Another cool thing is XUL if you are interfacing with XML.

[balakumark]

we can use Silverlight(NPA PI). At the moment they have just disabled NPAPI, You can reenable it by:

entering 'chrome://flags' in Chrome's address bar
clicking 'enable' under 'Enable NPAPI'
clicking the 'relaunch now' button.

JavaScript:

if (Silverlight.isInstalled("5.0")) 
{
	var SilverlightActiveX;
	var strFile = "D:\\test.docx"
	document.getElementById("Silverlight").Value = "ClientBin/SilverlightActiveX.xap";
	SilverlightActiveX = document.getElementById("Silverlight");
	var ret = SilverlightActiveX.Content.SL2JS.StartWord(strFile);
	if (ret == "true")
		return true;
	else
		return false;
}

Silverlight Application 

namespace SilverlightActiveX
{
    public class CreateDocument
    { 
	[ScriptableMember]
	public string StartWord(string strForm)
		{
			dynamic  objWord = AutomationFactory.CreateObject("Word.Application");
			wordDoc = objWord.Documents.Open(strForm,false,false,false);
			objWord.visible = true;
			objWord.Activate();	
		}
	}
}

Likewise we can use AutomationFacto ry.CreateObject ("MSXML2.DOMDoc ument");