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
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Feeding on the power of our fear and the evil within us.
Incarnation of Satan's creation of all that we dread.
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