houghi wrote:
> Joost van der Waa wrote:
>> Besides all the tips on how to solve your problem, you might consider
>> telling your IT-department that builing IE-only website is building the
>> legacy application of the future. The next version of IE (8) will
>> probably more compliant with the W3C standards, which may also imply
>> that old websites will not work anymore.
>
> Where I work we work with differnt external partners, so we do not
> always have a choice. One system needs IE6 and is only tested on that.
> Some people have IE7, so some functionality is lost. The reason it won't
> work is because it is heavily Winders directed.
>
> e.g. what it can do is, like a virus, via a website force things to
> happen on your PC. It can steer other programs on your PC. This is
> intend use and the reason is easier work. Instead of using 7 or 8
> unrelated programs, where you look up and enter information that is
> almost identical in all of them, you only need to do it in one.
>
> Then another partner tells us to use Firefox. I am looking into why and
> am in the situation now where I am trying to hack the site in such a way
> that it can be used with IE, so people only need to use one program.
>
> The things we get done from IE are not possible with Firefox in a nice
> and easy way at this moment.
>
> Wether or not this is a good thing is nice to discuss with a pint of
> beer. The fact is that our department won't get away from it in the very
> near future. At other places they are looking to go all Linux though, as
> their demands are completely different.
>
> houghi
Just to illustrate what can go wrong: Last year MS decided to roll out
IE7 (without warning). So a lot of our pc-systems were updated, endig up
with a lot of problems because some of the core web-applications were
only tested/working with IE6.
The one and only one solution to fix this is to get rid of the IE
specific part (yes, I know, it can be hard) so we won't have to face the
same problem again with IE8. They have to modify it anyhow to get it
working with IE7, so just put in the extra effort to make it W3C compliant.

And using the web browser to push software etc. is not really a good
idea: if you can push software with legitimate goals, you can also do it
with less official intent.....

Joost