Have you wondered, "What were they thinking?!" This is your chance to find out! Along with fancy displays and cool sounds, the long list of ActiveX controls includes lots of tools for getting information from visitors to your pages.
For this, chapter and most of the following chapters, you should have the Microsoft Control Pad installed on your system. To install Control Pad though, you must have the latest version of Internet Explorer. Here's a shopping list of items:
Scripts allow to add interactivity to your pages quickly and easily. You can use almost anything a user does to trigger an action. For example, you can use track the movements of the mouse pointer, and use the mouse pointers location for different effects. In one example, moving the mouse pointer changes the foreground and background colors of a label. In another example, you can create ask users to fill out online forms and then process the results of surveys they fill out.