title: How to open local apps or files using a html5 button?
body: <p>I want to open local apps like skype from a html button, i have read a lot of stuff about that, but they dont work because the browsers dont let me do it, the browsers' newest versions dont allow to do that, and I know you are gonna tell me to do some other things instead doing this in order to open local apps, but I cant, I have to do exactly this way, it is a project from uni, the below  is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>//I have done this but it doesnt work
  &lt;a href="file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Skype/Phone/skype.exe"&gt;&lt;button&gt;Open App&lt;/button&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  
  //I have done this but it doesnt work
  &lt;a style="Content-Type: application/octet-stream" href="file:///C:/Windows/notepad.exe" 
  type="application/octet-stream"&gt;Open App&lt;/a&gt;
  
  //I have done this but it doesnt work
  &lt;button onclick="RunFile();"&gt;Open App&lt;/button&gt;
  &lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;
      function RunFile() {
      WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
      WshShell.Run("C:/windows/notepad.exe", 1, false);
      }
  &lt;/script&gt;
  
  
  //I have done this but it doesnt work
  &lt;input type="button" value="Run Notepad" onclick="RunProgram"/&gt;
  &lt;script language="VBScript"&gt; 
  Sub RunProgram 
      Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
      objShell.Run "notepad.exe"
  End Sub
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I need to use Firefox or chrome and i this ActiveX is used by IE </p>