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QuackHead · 06-19-2002, 02:30 PM

You can do alot of *weird* things with ActiveX controls, but that would assume that all the users to your site have ActiveX enabled... (I'm not sure if IE comes installed with ActiveX enabled...) AND all the users have to be using IE - because ActiveX is a Microsoft thing, and Gecko, Mozilla, Opera, etc. do not support it.

In short - there is no sure fire way to detect word.

~Quack

06-19-2002, 02:30 PM	PM User \| #7
QuackHead Regular Coder Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 344 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	You can do alot of weird things with ActiveX controls, but that would assume that all the users to your site have ActiveX enabled... (I'm not sure if IE comes installed with ActiveX enabled...) AND all the users have to be using IE - because ActiveX is a Microsoft thing, and Gecko, Mozilla, Opera, etc. do not support it. In short - there is no sure fire way to detect word. ~Quack