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For the most part, ActiveX works with a minimum amount of standards rewriting for the Internet, which is important if ActiveX is to gain popularity. In fact, it embraces a great deal of existing technology, so even programmers and clever Web page authors who have already dived headfirst into learning Java and JavaScript find that what they know is enhanced by using ActiveX. Here's how ActiveX Technology can be combined with existing technology to create active, innovative Web pages:

ActiveX makes use of existing standards, such as URLs and Internet communications protocols already familiar to Internet users. New, dedicated servers aren't required for ActiveX-enabled Web pages or applications

You can use ActiveX modules, called controls, alongside existing Java applets in your Web pages, so using old and new computing features in a Web page is possible. wow gold

With ActiveScripting, you can still use JavaScript to "glue together" new ActiveX controls on a Web page, allowing complete flexibility and providing a bridge to ease the transition from old to new technology.

When new features and protocols are needed for new types of communication, ActiveX can encapsulate its new commands and protocols within existing ones, eliminating the need for new types of Internet servers as new technology and software is introduced.
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Without getting into ActiveX specifics yet, it's important to point out that some of what's been described seems similar to what can be done by using Sun Microsystems Java programming language梑ut not all of it, and certainly not in the same way.

Java, an object-oriented language that looks and feels like C++, excels at bringing some computational power to Java-enabled Internet communications programs, mostly Web browsers for now. Although it has communications abilities, these abilities are used with the existing communications abilities of Web browsers and aren't expected to be communicators on their own. Java can be written to perform all communications itself梐nd even to create entire applications from scratch梑ut it seems that only Sun itself can write an entire application with Java from scratch (such as the HotJava Web browser).

ActiveX, on the other hand, is designed to be easy to use for not only adding smarts to existing communications programs such web browsers, but also for adding Internet communications ability to existing business applications and for creating entirely new hybrid applications from scratch, using familiar methods and a range of programming languages.

ActiveX combines two traditionally separate types of applications into one, with an emphasis on one type of application or another. For example, ActiveX can give an Internet application, such as a Web browser, true computing power and give a business application, such as a spreadsheet, true Internet connectivity梤eady to use existing Internet protocols to communicate with the outside world with the single click of a mouse button. wow gold

In other words, ActiveX makes an entire range of Internet-enabled programs possible. On one side of the scale, a Web browser might perform simple computations itself, easing the burden on a traditional Web server; on the other side, a word processor might use its built-in Internet connectivity to allow remote filesaving through FTP sites. Somewhere in the middle, a spreadsheet might have a "chat window" in it to allow two people connected through the Internet to work on the same spreadsheet file at the same time, without a separate Internet communications program and even without dedicated Web or FTP servers. (See Figure 2.1.)
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For the most part, when people want to make use of information on the Internet, they use Internet-connectivity software specifically designed to be an excellent communicator, such as a Web browser. When people want to create new information, they use business applications with computational abilities, such as a spreadsheet or word processor. Because most connectivity programs don't have much computational ability (which I like to call "smarts"), when people use them to surf the Internet, they generally don't create new information梩hey simply view existing information stored remotely. Presently, most business applications don't have any serious Internet connectivity built in, so when new information is created using these applications, real work occurs only locally, without remote Internet access or work-sharing between remote users.

The Internet, however, has grown enough in sophistication, reliability, and speed to support a new class of programs, one that blends the smarts of business applications and the communications abilities of Internet programs. All that's needed to take advantage of the Internet for real computing is the software tools to make it happen, and Microsoft is creating the tool to do it: ActiveX.

This chapter suggests what sort of applications can be created by using ActiveX, hypothesizes how the Internet can be used in the near future, and looks at how the Internet is currently being used with the first ActiveX-enabled applications.
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