Detecting host: Active Desktop or IE

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From: Robert Perry (RobertRimesPerry_at_Yahoo.com)
Date: 05/08/04 

Date: 7 May 2004 17:41:51 -0700

Anyone know of a way to enable an html document to detect if it is
being hosted as an Active Desktop item without raising any security
warnings? The document needs to perform x if hosted by the Active
Desktop or y if hosted by IE. Perhaps there is some property or object
that I can test for that's available in IE but not in an AD component
window (or vise-versa)?

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