Reading a txt file from Javascript

Question

am trying to read few lines from a txt file using JS,and i have this code but its not working for some reason,,

var fso = new ActiveXObject(\"Scripting.FileS         


        

Answer 1

Only IE supports ActiveXObject. Trying to use ActiveXObject on any other browser will fail because there is no such variable defined.

You need to either limit yourself to IE, write a browser plugin instead, or give up trying to get file system access on other browsers and proxy files through a server instead.