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granted, the electronic medical record software that is the bane of my life (Allscripts Pro) requires Internet Explorer. WITH ACTIVE X!!!!
by caycep 7y ago
granted, the electronic medical record software that is the bane of my life (Allscripts Pro) requires Internet Explorer. WITH ACTIVE X!!!!
- derefr 7y agoThe second sentence is not much of a surprise; why would something require IE if not for its ActiveX support? Certainly, some things might render brokenly in other browsers, but ActiveX is the only real "IE-only feature" a site might depend on.
- unilynx 7y agoVBScript and HTA files (HTML Applications) come to mind. HTAs were actually an interesting direction, once used them to ship a simple application (a very visual FTP upload). It was unsandboxed HTML and JS that could access all the ActiveX APIs. A bit like Electron now. Can't image there not being a few niches out there that heavily rely (or relied) on HTAs
- microcolonel 7y agoI must say, supporting HTA can't be that big of a task, assuming the majority of those do not rely on any ActiveX controls. I guess MS could also probably write some replacements for the most popular ActiveX controls, and license them to their customers.
- badsectoracula 7y agoI have a small niche... a calculator that opens fast :-P http://runtimeterror.com/tools/calc/calc.hta.txt http://runtimeterror.com/tools/calc/calc.hta.txt (yes, running an HTA "calc" is faster than the UWP Windows 10 calculator... and uses less RAM :-/).
- Jaruzel 7y agoThat's nice. I once wrote a clone of Active Directory Users & Computers (dsa.msc) as a HTA, as I was working on a contract where I was expected to design stuff for the AD, but they wouldn't let me install the AD tools... If all you have is Notepad, and you know how to write HTAs, the world is your oyster (or something).