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Re:Coding Horror: All Programming is Web Programming by stewiecat on Friday August 14, 2009 @09:26AM (#762943)
Some hospitals are run off of web apps. They're internally hosted and cost $20M/install, but they still run in IE.
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Re:Coding Horror: All Programming is Web Programming by StrawberryFrog on Friday August 14, 2009 @10:37AM (#763062)
And sometimes it's IE6. No, it won't work on other browsers. No, they won't update or re-write the software - it was a nightmare to get developed the first time around.
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Re:Coding Horror: All Programming is Web Programming by superchink on Friday August 14, 2009 @06:19PM (#763956)
Our software works on IE6-7 & Firefox, but yes, it can be a nightmare to support newer browsers.
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Re:Coding Horror: All Programming is Web Programming by StrawberryFrog on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @09:19AM (#784737)
By "Nightmare", I was thinking more of the dysfunctional tender + waterfall process that some large contracts (especially public or government) are prone to. If the development is so very painful, requests for change are not going to be looked kindly upon.
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