title: convert asp DTC control to html
body: <p>I have a web page built using classic asp and it's DTC controls, I am trying to convert the page to support modern browsers, first I have started to convert the controls, i.e. I have the following dtc control (textbox) what should be done to convert it?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;OBJECT id=txtStartDate style="LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 60px; TOP: 0px; HEIGHT: 19px" height=19 
      width=60 classid="clsid:B5F0E469-DC5F-11D0-9846-0000F8027CA0"&gt;
      &lt;PARAM NAME="_ExtentX" VALUE="1588"&gt;
      &lt;PARAM NAME="_ExtentY" VALUE="503"&gt;
      &lt;PARAM NAME="id" VALUE="txtStartDate"&gt;
      &lt;PARAM NAME="ControlType" VALUE="0"&gt;
      &lt;PARAM NAME="Lines" VALUE="3"&gt;
      &lt;PARAM NAME="DataSource" VALUE=""&gt;
      &lt;PARAM NAME="DataField" VALUE=""&gt;
      &lt;PARAM NAME="Enabled" VALUE="-1"&gt;
      &lt;PARAM NAME="Visible" VALUE="-1"&gt;
      &lt;PARAM NAME="MaxChars" VALUE="11"&gt;
      &lt;PARAM NAME="DisplayWidth" VALUE="10"&gt;
      &lt;PARAM NAME="Platform" VALUE="256"&gt;
      &lt;PARAM NAME="LocalPath" VALUE=""&gt;&lt;/OBJECT&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the headers of my asp page are:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%@ Language=VBScript codepage=65001 %&gt;
  &lt;% Server.ScriptTimeout = 1000 %&gt;
  &lt;script id="DebugDirectives" runat="server" language="javascript"&gt;
  &lt;FORM name=thisForm METHOD=post&gt;
  &lt;HTML&gt;
  &lt;HEAD&gt;
  &lt;META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"&gt;
  &lt;OBJECT RUNAT=server SCOPE="Page" PROGID=VB6Sup.CentralCRM id=CustomerInfo&gt;&lt;/OBJECT&gt;
  &lt;OBJECT RUNAT=server SCOPE="Page" PROGID=AddressLib.Main id=Address &gt;&lt;/OBJECT&gt;
  &lt;META name=VI60_defaultClientScript content=VBScript&gt;
  &lt;TITLE&gt;HAWB Search&lt;/TITLE&gt;
  &lt;SCRIPT ID=serverEventHandlersVBS LANGUAGE=vbscript RUNAT=Server&gt;
  </code></pre>