Apparently not. ;-) On 9/30/06, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > He was being sarcastic, that was obvious. > > > > > > > "This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, > Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, > Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is > confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of > the > intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please > note > that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the > information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have > received this communication in error please return it to the sender or > call > our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within > this > communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." > Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: John C. Bland II > To: CF-Talk > Sent: Sat Sep 30 22:15:40 2006 > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > Are you seriously stating you called MSFT about IE not rendering something > right? That is definitely not a bug. IE has a rendering engine. CSS > developers know what it can and can't handle. If you did something it > can't > handle, tough cookies. Fix your CSS...not IE. lol. > > Sorry man, that just seemed pretty far-fetched. Now, if you had an issue > with a .NET applicaiton or ASP.NET site, you called MSFT, and got the same > responses...I would understand. > > Not trying to flame you or anything. Your email just didn't make much > sense, > to me at least. > > On 9/30/06, Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Matthew Small wrote: > > > One of the biggest things that can be said about MS products is that > > > they are supported, constantly. > > > > IIRC the only web development language of any significance ever > deprecated > > by its vendor was ASP. > > > > > > > But even better, we have professional support for the little guy. When > > > you write you own memory leak (and believe me, it can be done using > > > JRUN and CF) we can tell you why that exists as well. Our > > > professional support costs some money ($245) but that's cheap when you > > > have a seriously important application that needs to be fixed NOW. > > > > So next time I find an issue where for instance a bug in IE results in > > incorrect rendering, I can just call and I get a bugfix a month later? > That > > is not my experience with MS support. My experience is more along the > lines > > of "that is not a bug, that is a feature". Another famous one is "we can > not > > disclose whether this bug exists because that would open us to > litigation". > > Or how about "it is not a bug but we won't charge you for reporting this > and > > you will have a much better experience with the next version". > > > > > > In my experience (with any software vendor) the only recource the small > > guy can really rely on is the source code and sufficient skill to fix it > > yourself. > > > > Jochem > > > > > > > >
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