Looks like we won’t be using Firefox at work, despite how it now does seamless authentication and everything. You see, one of our business critical applications has a web client, which all the staff will be using. And (go on! go on! guess!)...that client only works in Internet Explorer. It totally, totally does not work in Firefox. It uses IE-specific HTML. IE-specific JavaScript. There’s not a chance it’ll work in Firefox. Great.
What’s the fucking point in writing a web client if it only works in one browser?
This is what vendor lock-in means. All hail the mighty Microsoft.
The stupid thermal coffee mug the company has sent me does not make up for this.
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Rob
sil
Bloody thing. I put a cup of tea in it yesterday. 20 minutes later it was still hot enough to very severely scald the inside of my mouth. This has not put me in a good mood with the company.
Ben
Ah yes, the joys of a ignorant third-party software developers. My company is in the process of seeking a web-development agency to assist with integrating a new ERP/E-Commerce system into an accessible, usable website. The software (which cost a five-figure sum, GBP) comes with web templates, but they are so awfully written that I refuse to use them. They are heavily reliant on JavaScript to function (to the extent that anyone who dares disable JavaScript will be denied entry to the site completely, with a great big red error message asking you to turn it back on) and of course the JavaScript is pretty much all IE-specific. Horrendous.
And to think that people are starting to take up Firefox in droves…surely it is a sign of supreme ignorance in a softco for them to not realise this is a development cul-de-sac?
(P.S. I like the auto-preview feature, but it seems to want to strikeout anything after a hyphenated word…)
No'
guess what? Even the mug is IE-specific…
sil
Ben: yes, the autopreview is slightly broken. It’s on my list to fix, but I never get around to it :)
The software we’ve got is easily into six figures, and it’s still IE-specific. It makes me really, really angry.
Dave Farquhar
I feel your pain. One of my clients has a web-based application that not only requires Internet Exploiter, it requires Internet Exploiter on a PC. It absolutely, positively, won’t work from a Macintosh. Not even the latest (last?) version of IE for the Mac. Like you say, what’s the point of putting it in a web browser if it’s going to be so platform specific?
We ended up having to buy a bunch of Terminal Server CALs so the Mac people could log in, run IE, and fill out their timesheets. What a waste.
pee-tee-f-k
I’ll have the thermal coffee mug if you don’t want it :)