Replacement for ActiveX Controls in Cross Browsers

Question

I am having an application written developed in asp classic. and with rich use of ActiveX controls. Right away it is only IE supported. But we are moving towards cross browsing platform.

As we all know Microsoft Edge is coming up and it is ending up the support for ActiveX as well as Other browsers like chrome,Firefox are ending up support for NPAPI And other plugins.

http://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/06/a-break-from-the-past-part-2-saying-goodbye-to-activex-vbscript-attachevent/

So Is there any alternative is given for that ActiveX controls to access or integration of hardware and also any plugins for cross Browsing ?

Help would be much Appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

IE11 will still support ActiveX. You can use the Enterprise Mode site list so that the web sites or app will start in Edge and then automatically open using Internet Explorer 11. Edge and IE 11 are both available on Windows 10, with Edge is the default browser. Additionally, if you know that your intranet sites aren't going to work properly with Microsoft Edge, you can set all intranet sites to automatically open using IE11.

Here is the detail: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt270205.aspx