activex

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activex - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  ActiveX
  
     <programming> A type of COM component that can
     self-register, also known as an "ActiveX control".  All COM
     objects implement the "IUnknown" interface but an ActiveX
     control usually also implements some of the standard
     interfaces for embedding, user interface, methods, properties,
     events, and persistence.
  
     ActiveX controls were originally called "OLE Controls", and
     were required to provide all of these interfaces but that
     requirement was dropped, and the name changed, to make ActiveX
     controls lean enough to be downloaded as part of a web page.
  
     Because ActiveX components can support the OLE embedding
     interfaces, they can be included in web pages.  Because they
     are COM objects, they can be used from languages such as
     Visual Basic, Visual C++, Java, VBScript.
  
     ["Understanding ActiveX and OLE", David Chappell, MS Press,
     1996].
  
     (http://microsoft.com/com/tech/activex.asp).
  
     (2002-04-19)