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    <p>I'm trying to figure out in an IE script (javascript or vbscript) which ActiveX control will handle a specific mime type, "image/tiff" in this case. This is easy to do in other browsers that use plugins with;</p> <blockquote> <p>navigator.mimeTypes["image/tiff"].enabledPlugin.name</p> </blockquote> <p>which would return something like</p> <blockquote> <p>QuickTime Plug-in X.X.X</p> </blockquote> <p>I've found plenty of examples to tell if a specific ActiveX control is loaded but since there are several ActiveX controls available that can handle tiff images I need to know which, if any, is registered to handle this mime type. </p> <p>The problem I'm trying to deal with is that QuickTime always wants to register itself as the default tiff viewer but it does a terrible job of it resulting in lots of support calls. Unfortunately, simply detecting that QuickTime is installed isn't good enough since the user may also have another tiff viewer installed (like Alternatiff) as the default tiff viewer or the user may have configured QuickTime to not be the default viewer for tiff images so the browser could be using a helper app to display the image instead.</p> <p>Not meaning to be difficult but before anyone suggests reengineering workarounds; </p> <ul> <li>yes I know I could force the user to use a specific ActiveX viewer in IE or to use a Java tiff viewer but I'd rather let them use a viewer of their choice rather than forcing them to install a viewer of my choosing, especially since their viewer may be a helper app that loads the tiff image into a business workflow within their office</li> <li>yes I know there are other image formats that I could use but tiff is the defacto standard for document imaging and that's what the vast majority of these users prefer to use. The problem isn't the image format, it's that QuickTime just doesn't cut it as a tiff viewer</li> </ul> <p>Thanks in advance for any suggestions or solutions...</p>
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    1. COWhat is the end result - to provide them with some sort of warning if QuickTime is the default handler?
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    2. COWhy not wrap in PDF - if it is a scan, you can easily change the tiff headers to pdf for ccitt g4 for example. Alternatively wrap a link around a tiff image that says Click me
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    3. COHi Brad, yes the end result would be to provide them with a warning and a link to a page with instructions on alternative configurations that would work.
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