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What happens when a user clicks on a PC-Install with Internet Extensions Object or URL and they aren using Explorer or Navigator?

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What happens when a user clicks on a PC-Install with Internet Extensions Object or URL and they aren using Explorer or Navigator?

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A. The simple answer to this questions is nothing. Actually, most other browsers will attempt to download the PC-Install installation file, but because the plug-in or ActiveX module actually executes the installation file and none is present, no installation will take place. To address this eventuality, a web author may want to provide two links–one to the PC-Install installation file for Navigator and Explorer users and another to the more conventional single .EXE for ftp from other browsers. (20/20 Software’s PC-Install can create such a single .EXE file.) Or if you’re really interested, you can use a cgi script to detect which browser requested the file and send the appropriate installation file (PC-Install or single .EXE) transparent to the user. Javascript can also be used to perform this function.