ActiveX Technology: A Family Tree

May 3, 1996

NAME	ROLE	FORMER NAME
ActiveX controls	Live objects that can be inserted into Web pages as well as any Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, Microsoft Access, or other application that is an ActiveX control container	OLE controls
ActiveX documents	Documents that can be displayed by Web browsers using document viewers	DocObjects
ActiveX server framework	Lets you provide customized Web pages, using content from a database or customized in other ways	Includes the Internet Server API (ISAPI), as well as other server-side extensions
Internet ActiveX controls	A set of ActiveX controls for building browser and Internet communications capabilities into your applications
Internet Data Download Services	APIs to access data over the Internet
Active Scripts	VBScript and other scripting languages that connect controls and add interactive functionality to Web pages
Code Download and Verification	Automatic downloading, verification, and installation
HTML extensions	To support controls and scripting

For a comprehensive discussion of how ActiveX technologies will affect Internet development, read "Dr. GUI Gets Webbed," Developer Network News, May 3, 1996.