> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 10:43 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Vista and IE7
> 
> I guess that's the crux of it.  OWA is meant to access outlook
> remotely in situations just like the one supplied.  Afterall, if you
> weren't remote, or at least on your own machine, you'd use the outlook
> client.

OWA's job may be to allow you access to Exchange... but IE's job (especially
in protected mode) is to protect the user from running active code. 

You might complain that the organizers placed the machines in protected mode
when they "knew" people would want to do such things, but I can't see how
you can blame IE/Vista for it.

In this case however I don't know if it would ever work in Vista - Vista
doesn't include the DHTML Editing control used by most versions of OWA.
Here's an article covering why and how applications can work around it (I
assume that an update to OWA will follow these recommendations).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlong/html
/htmleditinfuture.asp

Now the first thought may be "well, why did they do this when they knew ot
would break OWA?!"  In my mind it goes back to my original comments: the
Vista/IE Team did something that improved security regardless of how it
affected existing software - even other MS software.

To me that's actually a good thing.  A potentially infuriating, annoying and
huge-pain-in-the-ass thing, but a good thing nonetheless.

It's been happening for years now.  MS is crucified for providing insecure
software.  Then they're crucified for eliminating functionality when they
lock things down.

Jim Davis


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