Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu May 14 12:52:10 CDT 2009
When I first opened IE8, I found it took a good half and hour to remove enough security to make it useful. I just can not imagine a layman getting the product working well enough to really enjoy it. The one item of blocking JavaScript has always annoyed me. Considering that MS ASP.Net would not run without JS, it seems strange. This brings up a question that has had me wondering for years. There has been an 'urban legend' that somehow a skilled programmer can make JS running in a browser to actually access the host computer. I have spent days over the last years trying to investigate the theory but never found any tangible evidence. Has anyone else found anything to confirm this theory? On the other hand, IE8 seems like a very full package in its own right with lots of interesting features to explorer... I would prefer to do a bit of testing before launching it on any of my not so computer savvy clients. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Dan Waters Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:46 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] IE8 Hi Andy, I tried IE8 when MS first announced that that it was available several weeks ago. When it first tried to run, I got a message that there was a security review that needed to be done. So I had to download some software which would take care of that. I did so, but then spent the rest of the day recovering. It turned out that I had to reflash my BIOS to fully recover. I'm sorry I don't remember more details but then again I've tried to forget. If it asks you to run a security 'fixing' program, you may want to back out. I haven't tried again since then. Dan -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:02 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] IE8 Hi all Any feedback on IE8? Should I or shouldn't I? Andy _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com