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Daniel Pedroza

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I've gotten a code from topaz SigPlus
But it is only working on IE 8, I've tried with Firefox 12, Chrome 19 and Opera 12 and doesn't work with any of those 3

Here is the code:

<html>
<head>
<title>SigPlus Example</title>

<h2><b><font color="blue">Simple Javascript Signature Demo</font></b></h2>

function OnClear() {
   document.SigPlus1.ClearTablet(); //Clears the signature, in case of error or mistake
}

function OnCancel() {
   document.SigPlus1.TabletState = 0; //Turns tablet off
}

function OnSign() {
document.SigPlus1.TabletState = 1; //Turns tablet on
alert("signpressed");
alert(SigPlus1.TabletState);
}

function OnSave() {

document.SigPlus1.TabletState = 0; //Turns tablet off
	document.SigPlus1.SigCompressionMode = 1; //Compresses the signature at a 2.5 to 1 ratio, 
making it smaller...to display the signature again later, you WILL HAVE TO set the 
SigCompressionMode of the new SigPlus object = 1, also

alert("The signature you have taken is the following data: " + SigPlus1.SigString);
//The signature is now taken, and you may access it using the SigString property of SigPlus. 
This SigString is the actual signature, in ASCII format. You may pass this string value like you 
would any other String. To display the signature again, you simply pass this String back to the 
SigString property of SigPlus (BE SURE TO SET SigCompressionMode=1 PRIOR TO REASSIGNING THE SigString)

}

//-->
</script>
</head>

<body>

</form>

</body>

</html>

What is it wrong that makes it not working on othes browsers?
This is supposed to get the digital signature from a digitar signature pad, one of this: PAD

Bear Bibeault

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This is likely something you should pursue with the vendor.

I suspect it uses an ActiveX control in which case it will never work in anything other than IE*.

* Which in this day and age is a FAIL of major proportions as IE is no longer the dominant browser.

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Yeah, it uses Activex, is there a way for making that firefox be able to use ActiveX?

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Daniel Pedroza wrote:Yeah, it uses Activex, is there a way for making that firefox be able to use ActiveX?

If you fork the browser and write in the support yourself.

ActiveX is IE only as Bear stated.

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There's something called FF ActiveX Host at http://code.google.com/p/ff-activex-host . It doesn't seem to be maintained, but it might work. Another possible solution is IE Tab, a Firefox Add-on (Windows only) that doesn't make ActiveX work on Firefox, but makes an IE browser window appear inside a Firefox browser. I use that when I have to use Sharepoint at work. It automatically opens those pages with IE, but otherwise still looks like I'm using Firefox. Of course, all your Firefox users would have to install that Add-on and configure it to activate whenever they went to one of your pages. Also, they'd have to be on a Windows platform.

The best thing to do is refactor your web pages to not use ActiveX, which is an outdated, insecure, and needlessly proprietary technology.

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Greg Charles wrote:There's something called FF ActiveX Host at http://code.google.com/p/ff-activex-host . It doesn't seem to be maintained, but it might work. Another possible solution is IE Tab, a Firefox Add-on (Windows only) that doesn't make ActiveX work on Firefox, but makes an IE browser window appear inside a Firefox browser. I use that when I have to use Sharepoint at work. It automatically opens those pages with IE, but otherwise still looks like I'm using Firefox. Of course, all your Firefox users would have to install that Add-on and configure it to activate whenever they went to one of your pages. Also, they'd have to be on a Windows platform.

The best thing to do is refactor your web pages to not use ActiveX, which is an outdated, insecure, and needlessly proprietary technology.

Thanks, I've just tried FF ActiveX Host but didn't work, I'll see if there is a way to make it without ActiveX, or maybe it could be with a java Applet.
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