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What is "new ActiveXObject('Program.ID')" good for?

Mar 6th, 2000 00:16
Martin Honnen, Rob Wilder,

In IE4/5+ specific code or probably mostly in asp JScript or wsh 
JScript you find the call
  var someObject = new ActiveXObject('SomeProgram.ID')
This gives you a JScript wrapper object to access an active x/com 
object from your JScript code. For instance to create the 
FileSystemObject
  var fso = new ActiveXObject('Scripting.FileSystemObject');

Note that inside web pages the instantiation of active x objects is 
subject to security restrictions so the above code may fail when 
security settings in the browser don't allow it to happen. Error message
  Automation server can't create object