267: Internet publishing - modifying your site to use the ActiveX version of Scorch

The ActiveX version of Scorch has many advantages over the previous Netscape-style plug-in versions of Scorch, including:

• Automatic installation for Windows Internet Explorer users
• Faster download (the total download is around 700K)
• New feature which always regularises staff-line width to make music as legible as possible

If you want to make your own site use the ActiveX version of Scorch where possible, and use the Netscape-style plug-in for e.g. Netscape, Opera and Mac users, you should replace your existing EMBED tag in your HTML templates with tags based on the following syntax:

<object id="ScorchPlugin"
classid="clsid:A8F2B9BD-A6A0-486A-9744-18920D898429"
width="x"
height="y"
codebase="http://www.sibelius.com/download/software/win/ActiveXPlugin.cab">
<param name="src" value="file.sib">
<param name="type" value="application/x-sibelius-score">
<param name="scorch_minimum_version" value="2000">
<param name="scorch_preferred_version" value="2040">
<param name="scorch_shrink_limit" value="90">
<embed src="file.sib"
scorch_minimum_version="2000"
scorch_preferred_version="2040"
scorch_shrink_limit="90"
width="x"
height="y"
type="application/x-sibelius-score"
codebase="http://www.sibelius.com/cgi/plugin.pl"
pluginspage="http://www.sibelius.com/cgi/plugin.pl">
</embed>
</object>

where x and y are the pixel dimensions of the Scorch window, and file.sib is the complete path to the Sibelius file (usually it will simply be e.g. file.sib as we recommend that the HTML and Sibelius files should live in the same directory).

Note: You should not change any of the rest of the syntax above.

When you use the above syntax on your web pages, Windows Internet Explorer will use the ActiveX version of Scorch, and prompt the user to install it if they do not already have it installed; installation is automatic and will only take a couple of minutes. After downloading the ActiveX version of Scorch for the first time, the user will be redirected to a page to read the Scorch license agreement, but they will be returned to your site after they accept the terms of that license agreement.

Provided you use the above syntax, with the EMBED tag nested inside the OBJECT tag, this will also continue to work on Netscape, Opera and other non-Microsoft browsers, and also on all Mac web browsers.