[AccessD] SPAM-LOW: Re: Zoho Access Migration Plugin

Max Wanadoo max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 17:20:39 CDT 2009


...and, I am not going to argue with that.  Access, first, last,
everything...

Max
Ps. Could be biased of course - not impossible for me.


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: 12 August 2009 23:12
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] SPAM-LOW: Re: Zoho Access Migration Plugin

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.
>>
> 
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