Dan Kegel wrote:
A systems integrator mentioned that many commercial ERP applications use ActiveX terminal emulator controls embedded in web pages. (I think http://www.zephyrcorp.com/terminal-emulator-activex-document.htm is an example of such an ActiveX control.) Presumably these will run in IE on Wine, but will they run in the new MSHTML browser that's part of Wine? (Sorry if my terminology is a bit off - I haven't played with mshtml ever.)
I've never tested it, but it should be possible. There is Plug-in For Hosting ActiveX Controls: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm It is installed by default with Mozilla ActiveX Control (I know, it's a mess of names here...), so if MSHTML uses Gecko provided by this, it'll be able to use ActiveX control. I don't know how well does it work, but, to have full support for ActiveX, that plug-in would probably have to cooperate with MSHTML. It means that if we want to have a full support for ActiveX controls, we'd have to implement it ourselves by creating a Gecko plug-in in MSHTML. But it's for far future and, again, perhaps current solution is good enough.
Jacek
