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  Plug-In Detection with JavaScript
Subject:   what about other plug-ins ? msWord etc?
Date:   2003-05-29 21:46:33
From:   anonymous2
Response to: what about other plug-ins ? msWord etc?

Why is navigator.plugins still empty in IE 6.0?
var objWord = new ActiveXObject("Word.Application"); always give the message
"An ActiveX control on this page might be unsafe to interact with other parts of the page. Do you want to allow this interaction?"


which is really a irritating to a user...it would be nice to have some other workaround...