opening Outlook through javascript

Question

Does anyone know how to open Outlook using Javascript?

I am getting an exception (in IE6) while using this code:

var outlookApp = new ActiveXObject(\         


        

Answer 1

I seem to recall that Outlook registers its own URI scheme (!), so you can actually open it very simply and easily from a hyperlink of the form outlook:, if that's really what you want to do. Unfortunately I don't own a copy of Outlook anymore, and it's been years since I've tried this, so I'm unable to verify that it still works.

Edited to add: Well! The link shows up as a link in the preview, but not in the actual posted answer. In any case, here is some HTML code to clarify my meaning:

Click here to launch Microsoft Outlook