I used to write ASP apps from 1997 to 2001. Management required that I use VBScript and ActiveX controls, but I had to use JavaScript in cases when VBScript wa

I used to write ASP apps from 1997 to 2001. Management required that I use VBScript and ActiveX controls, but I had to use JavaScript in cases when VBScript was too slow. Each new version of Internet Explorer would break compatibility and require a rewrite. For example using and programming for IE 4 would break when IE 5 came out and even the AcitveX controls would not load properly. We had to switch from some ActiveX controls Kodak made to use Lead Tools instead to load TIF images of the employee pictures. Then IE 6 came out and broke that and required a new version of Lead Tools and other stuff. There were people with Macs, OS/2, and Linux that could not use the ASP made websites because they couldn't run ActiveX and VBScript. So I suggested to management that we replace the ActiveX objects with Java objects and use JavaScript instead of VBScript and we could then make it so that the Non-Windows systems could access the Intranet web apps. Management hated that idea and ordered me to never use Java because it wasn't made by Microsoft and they didn't understand it. But yeah each new IE version broke compatibility in the way management wanted me to develop web apps. I can see why companies want to stay with an older IE version and older Windows, because of the time and money it takes to upgrade the websites to the newer IE versions.