HTML authoring tools will make it easy to create HTML pages with embedded ActiveX Controls. Such tools should be responsible for creating the .LPK license package for licensed controls used on a page or on a web site. Since there may be a one-to-many mapping between LPKs and HTMs, this may be more difficult for pagebased authoring tools as opposed to web-based authoring tools (e.g. Microsoft FrontPage).
Clearly, tool support is necessary for Notepad HTML authors as well. The solution is a simple GUI tool that lists all controls that are installed on a machine with design-time licenses. The tool allows a user to create a .LPK license package by selecting which Controls should be included in the package. A second tool could parse HTML pages an create a .LPK file for all the controls that require licensing.
It is crucial that the licensing scheme described above works in other ActiveX-enabled web browsers, particularly in the NCompass ActiveX Plug-in. Because the plug-in specification only allows plug-ins to be specified using the <EMBED> syntax, therefore pages authored to work with both Internet Explorer 3.0 and NCompass will need to use syntax similar to the following:
<OBJECT CLASSID = "clsid:5220cb21-c88d-11cf-b347-00aa00a28331">
<PARAM NAME="LPKPath" VALUE="relative URL to .LPK file">
<EMBED SRC = "FOO.LPK">
</OBJECT>