On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:42:29AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:

> > It isn't possible. For that sort of thing you'll need something like
> > an ActiveX control with permission to read the user's file system. (Or
> > to get the user to type the path to the file).
> 
> And that, in turn, can only be reliable with IE on Windows.

Well, that specific example anyway :) I suspect a signed Java applet
could work on other systems. Its not reliable on IE anyway - its
unlikely that all users would have their security low enough (and
accept the alerts) for it to run.

However, I have trouble conceiving of a circumstance where it would be
useful to do this over the WWW, so its probably in an environment where
user agents can be mandated.
 
> I'm not aware of anyone getting ActiveX to work on anything other than 
> the IE/Windows combination. Admittedly, that's something like 90% of web 
> users, but Firefox, in particular, seems to be growing fast now.

I seem to recall somebody managing to run ActiveX and IE under WINE :)
 
-- 
David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk


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