I have been working on a project regarding an enterprise application that was formerly designed to run using Netscape Navigator 4.78 as its web interface. I have to make it run on Windows XP SP2 running IE 6.0. If contracts were to be honored, then this application should have only been fixed for Windows XP SP2. Alas, I was told to fix it also for Windows XP SP1, and as of late, for Windows 2000!
The application is STILL using Excel 95 for its templates. Using NN 4.78, there appears to be no problem when a client tries to download and open a worksheet, but when using IE, and using Excel 2000, the file won't be opened and it says "An application error has occured." (of course it's all in Japanese since I'm working in Japan). A "solution" to this is to upgrade the template to be Excel 2000 compatible. But then again, the customer insists on telling me that some users of the said application are STILL using Excel 95 and it would cause a great deal of pain if the templates will be upgraded. Poor me -- I'm damned! Microsoft no longer provides support for Excel 95...
The application is deployed on BEA WebLogic Server in a tight network security. Using NN 4.78, a download dialogue box asks you how you want a file to be handled (either to be opened or to be saved locally) and it gives you the option not to be asked anymore the second time the same filetype/mimetype is encountered. In IE, you can set how downloads are to be handled in each zone (internet, intranet, etc). The customer was accustomed to NN's file handling capability that it bugs me when I'm asked to put the damn download prompt to go away for good. I have already set the "always prompt on download" to disable on both the internet and intranet zones, but still, the download prompt still pops up! This damn configuration thing works in our office but why won't it on the customer's site? *#@#$^&
With these two problems, I of course turn to msdn.microsoft.com and google for help but the answers are nowhere to be found. I'm stuck and it sucks!
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