Simon Says – Musings of a Technology CTO

NOTE: These are now used in the AutoDomain 5.5x script.

I was playing around with Autodomain recently, and it occurred to me how awful, unreliable, and generally perverse it is to use internet explorer to collect information from the user.

Over the last few years, I’ve found that using IE as a way of presenting information to users from a VBScript tool is just fraught with problems. I’ve had machines tell me that IE does not exist (even though it was running at the time), IE has crashed, baulked, appeared minimized, behind windows etc. Generally it’s proven to be really, really unreliable. Read more…