I have a multi-page flow of webpages (jsp). After the user have done a lot of work i need to use an activex component, if not pressent on the machine the user is presented yellow bar at the top to accept the component, after accepting the page is reloaded and the user must repeat all the work, do to the fact that the page is reloaed - can this be avoided?
A:
There is no way to keep from reloading the page after dealing with the yellow bar, but there are ways you can detect if the activex control is installed or not, and then install it with a .exe or .msi (requires the user to download it) which is then available immediately after installation.
It's not an easy thing to get right, but there are some posts about it here: http://colonelpanic.net/2009/01/detecting-the-version-of-an-activex-ie-browser-plugin/
Taxilian
2010-09-08 22:51:56