active content LastModified: Wednesday, February 20, 2002
Refers to content on a Web site that is either interactive, such as Internet polls or opt-in features, or dynamic, such as animated GIFs, stock tickers, weather maps, JavaScript applications, embedded objects, streaming video and audio or ActiveX applications. Streaming video and audio rely on browser plug-ins, such as RealPlayer, to display active content.
Active Content - Administrators Beware The purpose of this paper from the SANS Institute is to construct a basic understanding of the threat that active content poses to information security.	related categories: Browsers Graphics Web Development related terms: ActiveX animated GIF content management system dynamic embedded object JavaScript opt-in e-mail