From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 27 05:47:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C30616A41F for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:47:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A538843D53 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:47:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id jBR5oWP81084 for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:50:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:47:11 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 In-Reply-To: <20051226083404.8C5A.GERARD@seibercom.net> Importance: Normal Subject: RE: BSD Question's. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:47:13 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Gerard Seibert >Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 5:38 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: BSD Question's. > > >I belong to a HS Officials Association. The entire BOCES site, where I >can confirm assignments, etc., is written in VB. I can only use IE to >access that site. > >I have spoken to the director of BOCES operations, and they informed me >that there was no way they were going to change the site. It cost them >many $thousands$ of dollars to have set up. > The last permanent web developer we had on staff wrote lots of sites like this in VB, he never had any trouble in getting them to come up in all browsers. There is no inherent property in VB that when you use it to build a site that it will require IE. The issue is the web developer that put the BOCES site together might have been a = good progrmamer but didn't know much about web development. In short, the BOCES opereation got taken, the director probably knows by now that he screwed up when he wrote the contract with the web dev firm, but he's not going to admit it to you. >I do have to admit that it works flawlessly though. > For now. The problem is that when the next version of IE comes out the onus is on Microsoft to make it compliant with standards first, and make it work with the previous IE versions idiosyncracies later. Without requiring the web developer to deliver a site that's compliant to the published standards, what your going to get is a site that only works with one specific version of IE, and no guarentees it will continue to work with future versions. Eventually it will break, by then you could put a bug in the directors ear that he might write in html standards compliance in the contract he will have to write then to get the site fixed. Ted