How to develop an IE plugin that will execute within browser with <OBJECT> tags

Question

I'm new to the realm of web/plugin development and I'm not sure what I need to be researching.

What I need is to develop a C++ app/dll/control/something that will install as a browser plugin and can be embedded and ran within IE when <object>...</object> tags call it (or any HTML tag that will embed something of the sort). Exactly how Adobe Flash executes within a given space within an IE window.

I've searched and have seen and created a basic BHO, but that doesn't seem to be the functionality I need, or maybe I haven't looked deep enough into its abilities.

Any tips or pointers?

Answer 1

Did you already develop the c++ one.?

Anyway for including the object these reference may help you.

I think you trying something like , in the second link.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_object.asp

http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/special/object.html

Am not sure is there anything specific for C++
http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.3/docs/tags.html

http://devedge-temp.mozilla.org/library/manuals/1998/htmlguide/tags14.html

http://joliclic.free.fr/html/object-tag/en/

Answer 2

I think you're looking to develop an ActiveX control here

Using ActiveX Controls to Automate Your Web Pages

Answer 3

The term for browser plugins used by Microsoft is Content Extensions. They are ActiveX based and allow you to add alternative content to a web-page as well as scriptable interfaces.

If there is a possibility that you'll need to support more than IE, consider using a wrapper like FireBreath that allows you to support multiple browsers from one code-base.