jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Aug 12 17:11:32 CDT 2009
ROTFL, HTML and (insert your favorite thing here) are not a happy marriage. I run into entire sites that refuse to display anything and tell me to open it in IE. How RUDE! And why, because this whole thing HTML thing is so sucky that they decide "screw it, we will only make it work in IE". Which MS LOVES of course. How RUDE. I don't use IE for a reason. Unless it is something that I absolutely HAVE to go to I just move on and don't visit their page at all. All of which merely confirms my statement that unless there is a valid reason, using a browser interface for an application is a huge mistake. You immediately open yourself up to all of this crap that we have been discussing. If your application is a "windows only" application that will be for internal consumption then "browser based" is a mistake that WILL bite you in the ass someday. Windows has a perfectly good "rendering engine", that is waaaaaayyyyy more flexible, capable and bulletproof than trying to throw a browser in the middle. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Stuart McLachlan wrote: > HTML and email are not a happy a marriage. Many email programs don't use a browser to > render it, they have their own engine. And don't get started on the cr*p HTML that we get > from people who use MS Word as their Outlook editor - It's no surprise that a lot of it doesn't > render properly. > > > On 12 Aug 2009 at 16:00, jwcolby wrote: > >> >> The point is, things are significantly better now with modern browsers. Your development >> experience back then does not have to be repeated today. >> >> And MY point is that "significantly better" can still be pretty screwy. >> >> I use Blockbuster. They mail me disks and I mail them back. They email me "we sent you" and "we >> received" kinds of emails as they ship and receive the disks. >> >> Those emails were working just fine, suddenly they are rendering as the "outlines" of where there >> should be little pictures. BUT... NOT ALWAYS. Some emails render correctly, some don't. It >> APPEARS to be something they are doing on their end, something that they insert into the page to be >> rendered because I can go back to emails in the beginning and they ALL render correctly. >> >