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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 04 2013 @ 07:15 PM EDT |
I have clients that need to use their browsers to interact with various
financial organizations. One client needs three browsers (IE 9, Firefox, and IE
6 hosted on a Virtual Machine) in order to access all of the information she
needs from their sites, because they are not interested in maintaining their
sites for a wide variety of potential users (these are large-dataset
corporate-use-only sites with a small pool of possible users). It took me
months to get her trained handling it, because her understanding is finances,
not software technologies.
This seems to be leading to some corporations hosting the browsers themselves on
their own servers "in the cloud" so they can run whatever lazy thing
they want. You connect a session via Citrix or RDP or something to their server
and use IE 6 or whatever on their own server. They're doing it because it's too
hard (expensive) to maintain their sites for such a variety of operating systems
and browsers. It isn't going to spur progress forking browser backends, it's
going to do the opposite. Stuff like Windows 8 is not helping; it's just going
to cause more of this.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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