Okay, I got excited of the xmlhttprequest function. I developed a small function where a user could match up a company in one database with their account on another database. The javascript would retrieve all unassigned companies from the second database and populate a popup scrolling list. Once the user clicked on the company in the popup, the assignment would be made in the first database....all without a page refresh. Too cool! Developed it with Firefox, made some tweaks to run in IE 6. Didn't even require that many tweaks either...sweet.
Went to show my manager this cool interface. He opened up Internet Explorer. He clicked on the popup link. The drop down list autopopulated. The grin on my face got bigger. He assigned a company. I started thinking about my review in June! He clicked the popup link a second time. The drop down list sat there with the "loading...." dialog. We waited.....seconds passed. He went to close the window. I said "Wait! Must just be extremely bad network traffic. We're probably getting hit by an internal virus someone brought from home on their thumb drive" The dialog never changed. We closed the window. I went back to my computer and opened up IE. Click. Autopopulate. Click. Assigned. Click. Autopopulate. Click Assigned. Click. Autopopulate. Click. Assigned. ad infinitum. Flawless execution. I tried it on a coworkers PC. Click. Autopopulate. Click. Assigned. Click. "Loading....." Hmmm..... I tried it on another coworkers PC. Click. Autopopulate. Click. Assigned. Click. "Loading....." Hmmm.... I tried it on another coworkers PC. Same results. "A-ha! Version numbers" Quickly I went back to my pc and viewed the version number. I copied it down, all freakin 30 characters of it". This would be and easy solution. I just needed to get everybody up to the current version of IE. First PC, hmmm same version.... Second PC....same version.... Third PC.....you guessed it.... This is when I started my microsoft rant :) Why is it that people think that web development is so easy. Talk to a C++ programmer and he'll look down on you because you program in a "web language". Do they face the same kind of version hurdles that we do? Marlon -- Invite 50 Friends to Gmail! Who has friggin' 50 friends!? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:152046 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
