[KLUG Members] Re: Calling all Linux novices: -- MS Office on non-Windows platforms ...

[Robert G. Brown]

Jutin,
  Thanks for a great posting and an interesting body of evidence.

>...I was involved with a project once that had the requirement of running
>in IE 5.0+ browsers....due to the original decision that VbScript would be
>used for client side scripting....
>No, the VBScript decision wasn't made by me ... and I wasn't around when
>it happened either.
I would have been positively acrimonious about it if I'd been there. This
is to a great degree a no-brainer... and in the end, you guys came up with
[more or less] the right decision. I woulda started with Java and Javascript,
but I've been through this before. THr lesson I've learedm, for lots of 
reasons, is that if you want a serious crack at code that won't ruin your 
life, keep it portable and independent of the clutches of any vendor. It's
hard, but possble, and easier tham the alternatives.

>... I don't see any reason to beleive that it would be any better when they
>code to an internal, and often changing, standard either.
You ans the rest of the Universe.

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