re: Are we ready to RUMBLE?

Vlad Mazek — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:48:35 GMT

Ok, I will stick my foot in the lions mouth and ask.

Is it irresponsible to run Internet Explorer outside of the few company-approved web sites or further restricting it to internal-use-only?

In my opinion: yes. I'll take it a step further: Anybody purchasing ActiveX driven software should be fired, on the spot. IE and its associated technologies have at least in my heart long lost the thumbs up and purchasing decisions should go towards web services that require no client components to be running. This is where the customer loses, when he/she is required to download and "trust" the code. I am tired of trusting, tired of patching, tired of constantly having to compromise, evaluate, alpha, beta, CTP, GTM and otherwise personally waste my time on software that should be delivered with some defined standard of quality.

I'm tired of "people ready" already. How about "maintenance free" for a change?

-Vlad