A Web document that is created using an applet. An active document is actually the user's interface to the applet that is running on the client. Active pages provide the highest level of interactivity with the user.
Since you can have more than one document open at a time, the active document is the one in which you are currently working.
Is a document that employs technologies such as DHTML, javascript, visual basicscript or CSS. Once an active document is downloaded it is run by the client's browser program.
a document that acts on its computing environment or that transforms itself when it is manipulated by a user through an editor
an ActiveX control representing Office documents such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
an electronic document which transforms itself or acts on its computing environment when certain editing commands are issued by the user
In Microsoft Internet Explorer, a document from any application that supports ActiveX document interfaces. These interfaces allow the document to be activated and edited in Internet Explorer.
A Windows-based, non-HTML application embedded in a browser, providing a way for the functionality of these applications to be accessible from within the browser interface.
A document with interactive computational support. To illustrate the difference between an active document and a passive document, a spreadsheet printed on paper is passive whereas an interactive spreadsheet on a computer is an active document. In the context of sensemaking, a sensemaking report could be active in the sense of having active links to refer back to sources. It could also be active in that it shows different sets of conclusions depending on which set of assumptions the reader selects. See also resumable sensemaking, source-linked sensemaking and assumption-linked sensemaking.