Thank you Carla
|
| Author | Content |
|---|---|
| tracyanne Aug 28, 2008 4:39 AM EDT |
Quoting:Using ActiveX is like rubbing yourself with bacon and flinging yourself into a hyena pack. |
| jdixon Aug 28, 2008 11:09 AM EDT |
> Fool me thousands of times over many years...let's get married!" Sorry TC, I'm already taken. :) Great line though. It made me laugh. |
| techiem2 Aug 28, 2008 12:27 PM EDT |
I love the bacon quote too. That has to be the best description of ActiveX I've seen yet. :) |
| tuxchick Aug 28, 2008 12:57 PM EDT |
awww, thanks. It's nice when your pet phrases are appreciated :) |
| NoDough Aug 28, 2008 3:36 PM EDT |
Mmmmm... bacon! |
| Steven_Rosenber Aug 28, 2008 3:41 PM EDT |
I have ONE thing I do that requires the use of IE. One thing. It's a big one thing. I saw a colleague do this one thing with the Opera browser. Since Opera's not FOSS, I had never even tried it, but the chance to eliminate IE from my diet was and is too good to pass up. So I'm IE- (and ActiveX-) free now, and yes, I feel much better. |
| Sander_Marechal Aug 28, 2008 7:16 PM EDT |
What's the "one thing"? |
| tracyanne Aug 28, 2008 9:08 PM EDT |
yeah, my curiosity is piqued. |
| dinotrac Aug 28, 2008 9:41 PM EDT |
>my curiosity is piqued. I hear a couple of aspirin and 8 solid hours of sleep will fix that right up. |
| Steven_Rosenber Aug 29, 2008 2:02 PM EDT |
My "one thing" is a company-specific, Web-based content management system that the programmers decided to make IE-only. About 50 percent of the app works with Firefox. I can get 95 percent of the way with Opera for some reason. I get a few CSS errors every once in awhile, but for the most part I can do my work a whole lot faster while not waiting for IE to do its thing ... And I can do that work on computers that don't run Windows, meaning I can work from home, where neither the buffalo nor Windows currently roam |
| herzeleid Aug 29, 2008 6:39 PM EDT |
> My "one thing" is a company-specific, Web-based content management system that the programmers decided to make IE-only. Yes, we have a "one thing" like that in my workplace, a hold over from the bad old days. It's a timecard/attendance app and the javascript works only with msie 5.5 or 6. Luckily I only have to use it twice a month. On the upside, the management is taking a much more enlightened approach these days, and when they request bids for such applications, they write it into the contract that it must be verified to to be 100% functional with no OS or browser-specific dependencies, or the vendor doesn't get paid. I'm happy to report some early results from that - a similar app, which is a daily time tracker app, works on firefox, seamonkey, safari, msie, and it doesn't matter whether I'm using mac, linux or pc. Good times. |
Posting in this forum is limited to members of the group: [ForumMods, SITEADMINS, MEMBERS.]
Becoming a member of LXer is easy and free. Join Us!