Ryland Bingham wrote:
> As a former Access developer (I'm not proud of it), I can tell you this
> is a definite no-go. You can't do this without both IE and Access
> installed. I think it was with Office 2000 MS made it real easy to
> Web-enable Access databases, all the normal widgets and controls could
> be made to show up in IE, but you really needed to have access installed
> for things to work. I'm not sure, but I think XP is a little better, in
> that everything can be done with XML, but that would require an entire
> interface re-write to the db.
>
> On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 17:04, John Clay wrote:
> > Our company has a web based accounting system. Connection requires IE
> > with MS Data Access Components and some changes to site settings within
> > IE. I'd like to get Netscape or some other Linux based browser to be
> > able to connect. Do any of you have any ideas as to whether or not
> > Netscape has any equivalent to MSDAC and where "site settings" as
> > implemented within IE can be manipulated?
> >
> > Thanks
> > John Clay
> >
> >
> --
> Ryland Bingham
> Unix/Linux Specialist
> T3 Technologies, Inc.
Bummer.
Just the sort of situation that M$ wants.
Thanks for the input everyone.
John Clay
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