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Story: Dumb and Dumber Proprietary Innovation Strikes AgainTotal Replies: 10
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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.

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