Chapter 9: ActiveX and ActiveX Controls
When I wrote this book back in early 1997, Microsoft was pushing ActiveX controls as a way to provide interactivity to Web pages. However, in the ensuing time, a superior technology called Dynamic HTML has arrived that basically negates the need for ActiveX controls in client-side Web pages.

With Dynamic HTML, every element on a Web page is dynamic and can be fully scripted using VBScript or JavaScript. Before Dynamic HTML, we were limited to using only those objects that were exposed by the ActiveX Scripting Object Model (SOM) that I describe on page 35 of the book. Today, with Dynamic HTML, we can script it all. There are no limits.

So that leaves chapters 9 and 10 in the dustbin of history. I strongly recommend against using any ActiveX controls in your Web sites as this technology is virtually unsupported by Microsoft for client-side Web development. Of course, that also means that you're going to want to learn Dynamic HTML if you expect to deliver the level of functionality that I describe in the book. Unfortunately, that's way beyond the scope of this Web site, sorry.