I'm using a WebGadget to display HTML files and these HTML files have sometimes a link to a excel spreadsheet.
The problem is that the IE ActiveX control (and IE in general) is not doing it's job well when a link links to an excel spreadsheet: the excel spreadsheet is not downloaded and excel not started.
FireFox (the app) on the other hand works very well
Now I thought of using the Mozilla control for the WebGadget to avoid the problem with the IE ActiveX control but the Mozilla control from the WebGadget uses DCOM and with that it uses the IE ActiveX stuff
FireFox (the app) doesn't use DCOM for such things but Mozilla's own interface (that's why it works, it uses XPCOM...).
Is there a way to utilize FireFox itself and with that the XPCOM Interface?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
fsw
BTW:
OS= WinXP pro with all SP's and bugfixes to date
PB= 4.2 beta 2
IE = 7 (but I don't know if the IE ActiveX stuff has the same version number