Linked by Adam S on Wed 5th Apr 2006 12:52 UTC, submitted by estherschindler
DevSource's John Mueller has an excellent "first look" at what it will take for Web developers to make their apps work with IE7. He says, "Unless you're using pretty much pure HTML on static pages, your application is going to break in some way."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Actually, ActiveX (when used in a controlled environment such as the corporate LAN, and when used properly) gives users a very rich interface and is a huge boon to productivity as the apps we can develop allow them to get more done w/o having to write a full blown WinForms app.
That being said I do agree w/ you that corp web development is in a very sad state, but not for the reason you stated ;-).
ActiveX won't matter soon though...MS has effectively killed it off by announcing WPF/E which is leaps and bounds better than what you can do w/ ActiveX. Plus it'll be truly cross platform/browser.
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2005-07-12
Yes, *we* know that. But you wouldn't believe how many people in the corporate world bought into the ActiveX idea and created sites which are completely dependent on it. And it isn't just intranet sites...
The state of corporate web development is really sad. :-(