Internet Explorer 8.

To get all the pages while browsing Godsplan Website you will have to change your settings to allow ActiveX controls, or use the I E 8 Next Page Links found at the bottom of the first page. The ActiveX controls on this site are numbered button page links, (click on them to go to the next page). They are safe; but IE8 blocks them to prevent harm to your P C.

ActiveX is a framework for defining reusable software components that perform a particular function or a set of functions in Microsoft Windows in a way that is independent of the programming language used to implement them. A software application can then be composed from one or more of these components in order to provide its functionality.

It was introduced in 1996 by Microsoft as a development of its Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies and it is commonly used in its Windows operating system, although the technology itself is not tied to it.

Many Microsoft Windows applications — including many of those from Microsoft itself, such as Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Windows Media Player — use ActiveX controls to build their feature-set and also encapsulate their own functionality as ActiveX controls which can then be embedded into other applications. Internet Explorer also allows embedding ActiveX controls onto web pages.

ActiveX controls — small program building blocks — can serve to create distributed applications that work over the Internet through web browsers. Examples include customized applications for gathering data, viewing certain kinds of files, and displaying animation. Although ActiveX controls are mostly very useful, there are of course many unscrupulous people who will use them for their own ends, and that is why Internet Explorer 8 blocks them.

However there is no problem if you use the ActiveX buttons on Godsplan Website they are only harmless next page buttons.

John Bradburn.