Electronic documents that can carry out or trigger actions automatically on a computer platform without the intervention of a user.
Electronic documents that can carry out or trigger actions automatically on a computer platform without the intervention of a user.
Software that is able to automatically carry out or trigger actions without the explicit intervention of a user.
Executable software that is bound to a document or other data file and that executes automatically when a user accesses the file, without explicit initiation by the user. (Compare: mobile code.)
Tutorial: Active content can be mobile code when its associated file is transferred across a network.
"Electronic documents that can carry out or trigger actions automatically on a computer platform without the intervention of a user. [This technology enables] mobile code associated with a document to execute as the document is rendered." [SP28]