How to create a HTML link which forces MS Word to edit document on webdav server

Question

Let\'s suppose that I have WebDAV-enabled server, where I have bunch of Office documents. I\'d like to generate webpage which has link to document such that clicking on the

Answer 1

Confluence uses the EditDocument method of the SharePoint.OpenDocuments ActiveX control.

Example in Javascript:

new ActiveXObject("SharePoint.OpenDocuments.1").EditDocument("http://example.com/test.doc")