Microsoft Internet Explorer

Microsoft Internet Explorer (also known as Windows Internet Explorer in newer versions of Windows) is the default graphical internet browser built into most versions of Windows.

Microsoft Internet Explorer can view static and dynamic web pages, and several graphic file formats including JPEGs, GIFs, and PNGs. In addition, it allows you to view various other file formats using helper applications. These helper applications were called browser plug-ins in very old versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, but Microsoft evolved the helper applications to a new technology called ActiveX.

You can download the latest version of Internet Explorer here...

Getting back to ActiveX, the Shockwave Flash ActiveX Control is the most well known of all controls.

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ActiveX

ActiveX is the successor to OLE 1 and OLE 2 - in clear cut, unambiguous terms, this means that ActiveX is a technology that allows components, clients or controls to run individually integrated in another application.

The control could be a Shockwave Flash control - the applications are usually web browsers like Microsoft Internet Explorer. Alternatively they can be any program which has the ability to communicate with an ActiveX control. In our case, this program happens to be Microsoft PowerPoint.

If you want to learn more about ActiveX, you can visit the following link:

Web Developer's Virtual Library has an excellent introduction to ActiveX. They also maintain an ActiveX links page.

This glossary article is an excerpt from Indezine's PowerPoint and Flash page. Indezine.com is the parent company that owns the FlashPPT site.

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