Tuesday, May 16, 2006

ActiveX vs. Java Applet

ActiveX is a technology developed by Microsoft. With an ActiveX-enabled browser (ie Internet Explorer only) ActiveX controls can be downloaded as part of a Web document to add functionality to the browser (similar to Java applets). In particular ActiveX enables seamless viewing of Windows files of all types, eg spreadsheets, and in combination with other technologies such as Java and scripting languages, makes possible the development of complex Web applications. ...

Does Active X works with Linux, I guess it is not because it is not windows, I tried Java applets for dialing to Netzero (ISP), it is all works for both linux and windows. Linux needs jre-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin and windows need C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_01\bin\npjpi150_01.dll

Linux:
download netzero.deb
cp netzero.deb /
cd /
ar -xv netzero.deb
gunzip data.tar.gz
tar xvf data.tar
Install java jre
cd /opt/nzclient
./runclient.sh

Create a file to get on desktop of cd ~/gnome-desktop links/associated to /java/jre-1_5_0/opt/runclient.sh
Click to dial from desktop of gnome.

No comments: