RE: IE-only sites

Hi Nik,

Are you inferring it is NOT possible to have other browsers talking to
IE-applications in a clean way?

Wouldn't you agree that an API can be emulated effectively taking away the
power from the owner?

Regards,

Pablo

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: annoyances-bounces-DzJonyRHso41Ayx8vbq1stBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org [mailto:annoyances-bounces@dee-
> annleblanc.com] En nombre de Nik Sargeant
> Enviado el: lunes, 24 de noviembre de 2003 12:04
> Para: [email protected]
> Asunto: RE: [Annoyances] IE-only sites
> 
> 
> Um ... my bank in the UK is one of the people who insist on IE to get into
> their interactive banking application. I have considered moving bank (but
> then I have been with them for 30 years) .. I have petitioned, written
> letters, emails, all to no avail .. and the other major embarrassment is
> my
> employer. I work for a rather large computer company; I work in a team of
> people responsible for looking after their huge call center
> support/opportunity management system running on Siebel. Unfortunately,
> the
> highly interactive Siebel client is, yup, you guessed it dependent on
> Internet Explorer (plus this version, this and that fixpack level). Hence
> the client platform I use for business at the moment really has to be
> M*crosoft. You have no idea - actually that is unfair; you may well have a
> very good idea - how much this pains me.
> 
> 
> Having been involved ( largely in vain) in many of the discussions between
> the evil empire and this certain large computer company about OS/2  (nee
> CPDOS) vs Windows vs AIX in the late Eighties, I know only too well that
> we
> brought all this on ourselves. He who owns the API, owns the industry.
> Open
> Software - and more importantly open standards give us the opportunity to
> put this right again.
> 
> Nik
> 
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