VBScript and ActiveX Control

VBScript and ActiveX Control are Microsoft systems that work with Internet Explorer. VBScript, a language that resembles Microsoft's Visual Basic can be used to add scripts to pages that are displayed by Internet Explorer. Anything that VBScript can do, Javascript (which Microsoft calls JScript) can do, too, and vice versa.

ActiveX Controls (AXCs), like Java, are used to embed executable programs into a web page. When Internet Explorer encounters a web page that uses ActiveX Controls, it checks whether that particular control is already installed on your computer and if it isn't, IE installs it. Netscape Navigator cant run plug-ins, ignoring the content that the plug-ins provides. Except for the Microsoft web site, few sites use ActiveX controls for anything other than cute animations.