[KLUG Members] Web devel

[Andrew Thompson]

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 09:56, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > IE6 runs on SuSe 9.3 with the stock Wine package.  As does Power Point,
> > > Word, and Media Player 7.  Excel has some issues saving files (wouldn't
> > > all the apps in a suite use the same I/O framework... wierd).
> > Got to remember that each Office app originally developed on its own and
> > they were later cobbled together (typical M$).
> 
> Surely by now they must have been rewritten;  I mean they've moved from
> M$-DOS, to Win16, to Win32.  I'd be shocked if they were internally
> really so fractured;  but then again....

Yeah, right. That's why Excel still uses MS Query to pull from external
databases, which STILL chokes on even the simplest SQL. Meanwhile, its
"successor," the OLE DB connection, won't pass parameters. Talk about
split-brain personality. Ten years' time to fix and polish ONE tool, and
they give us TWO as broken as the first was from the start!

-- 
Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
The Imagerie