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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Martin Honnen wrote:

> Christoph Michael Becker wrote:
>> That is exactly the point.  Calling ActiveXObject() works as expected,
>> but the ActiveXObject property is undefined.
>>
>> It occurs to me, Microsoft has done this to cater for scripts using
>> unrelated existence inference ( if (ActiveXObject) // assume IE ).
>> IMVHO that doesn't seem to be prudent.
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff955298%28v=vs.85%29.aspx says
> "For IE11 Mode in Internet Explorer 11, ActiveXObject is supported as
> described in this section except that ActiveXObject detection will fail
> when performed within a conditional statement.".
> 
> So it looks like they are doing the same that Mozilla used to do with
> document.all, that is support its use but don´t support feature checks
> on it.

Only that Mozilla’s move to suddenly support document.all when it was 
already phased out of MSHTML was a stupid one to begin with.

Your apostrophes are accents.

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