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Positioned Elements and OS Controls, Applets and Plug-ins
IFRAMEsIFRAMEs are supported by all browsers except for NS4, which ignores the tag. IFRAME visibility persists through HTML elements except in newer versions of IE for Windows starting with IE5.5. See the first page of this article.
Active-X ControlsIn IE for Windows, the term "Active-X Control" covers a great range of objects that can be included in an HTML page. Plug-ins, applets, media players, and more, are all regarded as Active-X. Again, a complete discussion is beyond our present scope. Windows, however, ships with many controls that can be included in your page. These built-in controls have no one persistence rule. Below are two examples of built-in Active-X controls, the Microsoft Form 2.0 TabStrip and the Microsoft Web Browser:
Notice that one persists while the other does not. As far as built-in Active-X is concerned, therefore, it is trial and error. What to Do?As we have seen, there is nothing we can do. We can, however, build our pages with this limitation in mind:
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