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Gobs
Gobs

Reputation: 11

How to develop an IE plugin that will execute within browser with <OBJECT> tags

I'm new to the realm of web/plugin development and I'm not sure what I need to be researching.

What I need is to develop a C++ app/dll/control/something that will install as a browser plugin and can be embedded and ran within IE when <object>...</object> tags call it (or any HTML tag that will embed something of the sort). Exactly how Adobe Flash executes within a given space within an IE window.

I've searched and have seen and created a basic BHO, but that doesn't seem to be the functionality I need, or maybe I haven't looked deep enough into its abilities.

Any tips or pointers?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1515

Answers (2)

Georg Fritzsche
Georg Fritzsche

Reputation: 98984

The term for browser plugins used by Microsoft is Content Extensions. They are ActiveX based and allow you to add alternative content to a web-page as well as scriptable interfaces.

If there is a possibility that you'll need to support more than IE, consider using a wrapper like FireBreath that allows you to support multiple browsers from one code-base.

Upvotes: 0

jasper
jasper

Reputation: 3474

I think you're looking to develop an ActiveX control here

Using ActiveX Controls to Automate Your Web Pages

Upvotes: 1

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