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One advantage to using ActiveX is the built-in authoring tools, both for adding elements (controls) to web pages and for any accompanying VBScripts.
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The major disadvantage is that web pages using ActiveX are recognized only by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, so that they have a limited audience.
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ActiveX would be particularly useful in a corporate environment that already had many applications and OCX controls programmed that would be connected by the web pages, and where the web pages are intended for intranet use, and not general internet use.
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If your web page applications are starting from scratch or are intended for general internet use, then it would probably be better to use Java/JavaScript.
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