Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Hidden failure of MSIE

Author:Ian Davis
Posted:6/23/1999; 7:44:17 AM
Topic:Hidden failure of Win2k
Msg #:7698 (In response to 7696)
Prev/Next:7697 / 7699

Another reason to keep the text editor in the web browser crippled -- to protect sales of Office, which includes Word. They do a hack to "integrate" Word with the web. But MSIE is already very nicely integrated with the web. It just needs a decent text editor.

Well you have three options:

1) Keep lobbying MS to add this useful functionality into IE

2) Write some kind of ActiveX control to do it and persuade people to download it

3) Change to a vendor that does listen to it's developers or customise an open source browser and persuade people to use that.

.id.

There are responses to this message:

This page was archived on 6/13/2001; 4:50:59 PM.

© Copyright 1998-2001 UserLand Software, Inc.