I've said it many times: in today's environment (and even that of 5 years
ago) management allowing development of any software product within a
company that requires a specific browser/java/proprietary hook is grounds
for a change in management--and possibly development staff as well.
Especially if it's destined for client use (rather than strictly internal).
Doing so, contrary to what one might think, arbitrarily limits one's
market, adds to support issues over the long term, and increases the time
and cost of improvements or patches. It's often done in the name of locking
in the customer, or because personnel involved have no real knowledge of
platforms other than the most common--Windows.
Using the existing globally accepted standards are a much better bet. They
allow a company to be able to remain more agile and competitive, and keep
costs lower over time.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/5/14 07:12 : , ChrisB wrote:
>
>> I hope, Chris, that nothing on the Internet requires anything Microsoft.
>> It’s probably a slip of the keyboard in this post, but I don’t think that
>> you *need* IE (any version) for any Internet facility. MS was late to the
>> Internet party and with IE6 tried to impose MS standards on the browsing
>> public, but now there are too many decent browsers available for IE to have
>> the influence that once it might have done.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Well, that's not quite true. It may also depend on any applications at
> your place of employment. We have several clinical apps where I work
> (hospital) that absolutely require IE. Our radiology PACS (imaging) system
> for one. If I want to open the viewer from home, it MUST be on IE and have
> a specific flavor of Java. The management page can run on my iPhone (and I
> use that quite often - it lets me not be shackled to my house during
> on-call weeks), but if I want to open either the same image viewer and
> dictation client that the radiologists use, it has to have IE as the
> default browser on the machine.
>
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