Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Bob Barrows" Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver,microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming Subject: Re: SSE2008: #Tables, Stored Procedures, Avoiding ActiveX Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:02:45 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <50185ba7$0$6915$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> <50197841$0$6842$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> Injection-Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 20:05:20 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="35499ba0748d606e1c5f962cf63f1337"; logging-data="3985"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+qOhZGNsf3lJmkfnzI79KvQWNlAGkRIJ0=" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.2001 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.2001 Cancel-Lock: sha1:3bmTmvGztmvBf/rXKjUeoPUeP70= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:1206 Jeroen Mostert wrote: >> My company made the decision years ago to only support IE. Yes, there >> have been some unhappy users, but we do have a captive audience who >> need to use these applications to do their jobs, and we do not have >> an army of testers and programmers to rewrite our applications to >> ensure all browsers can be supported. >> > There is nothing wrong with the decision to use only IE in an intranet > environment, especially if you have earlier already committed to > IE-specific stuff like ActiveX. > > That said, that still doesn't mean it's a good idea to use ADO > directly from client-side IE. Agreed. Client-side validation is just not important enough to open a potential security hole.