Opera (activeX) help urgently needed

1 replies · 2,258 views · Started 27 March 2005

lkote 27 Mar 2005, 15:10

Hey Guys!

I have a Nokia 9300 (with built in Opera browser).
Basically everything works OK, however using the browser few
sites which require (Windows) active-X controller (obviously?) do not
work. Any idea to overcome the problem?

N/A 27 Mar 2005, 17:03

There is no way to overcome the problem unless you use a Windows PC and Internet Explorer. That's because ActiveX Controls are Microsoft Windows executables embedded in web pages and sent to the client and run on the client. A Symbian phone will not run Windows executables.

Even switching to a Windows based mobile phone won't help as the ActiveX controls are generally only for desktop Windows.

You can ask the problem web sites' designers to create more portable web pages that do not require the client to be to a Windows PC and Internet Explorer (ActiveX Controls do that). (Java applets are more portable, but they won't work on mobile phones either. Neither wiill pages created with Flash.)