how's this for a pain in the arse...
Mar. 21st, 2005 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearTurbo-Tax, in spite of having such a well done forms-based system, decided for their 2004 release to utterly destroy that entire codebase in favor of a dynamic-html based site written entirely for IE.
And they couldn't even do that right. On cyd's win98 box where the older tax stuff is (and the only windows box in our place that's next to a printer and it won't talk windows-sharing with anybody else on the network), the forms won't render right. They all are at the top, as if the positioning was totally screwed up. And its not IE that's the problem per se, as we do have IE 6 installed.
so, we have a relatively useless piece of tax software at present. now we *could* move everything onto the XP box downstairs, but I *really* don't want to have that box be used for anything except multi-media and netsurfing...
*sigh*
something so simple...
and why the hell would ANYBODY replace a perfectly stable application with a version that's utterly dependent on what is, by deserved reputation, the buggiest piece of software in mass-marketting history?
Update: Ok, it has nothing to do with the version of IE specifically and everything to do with some oddball dependency they have on the "normal" setting of 96 DPI fonts. This bug was reported back in December and they still haven't made a fix for it yet.
And they couldn't even do that right. On cyd's win98 box where the older tax stuff is (and the only windows box in our place that's next to a printer and it won't talk windows-sharing with anybody else on the network), the forms won't render right. They all are at the top, as if the positioning was totally screwed up. And its not IE that's the problem per se, as we do have IE 6 installed.
so, we have a relatively useless piece of tax software at present. now we *could* move everything onto the XP box downstairs, but I *really* don't want to have that box be used for anything except multi-media and netsurfing...
*sigh*
something so simple...
and why the hell would ANYBODY replace a perfectly stable application with a version that's utterly dependent on what is, by deserved reputation, the buggiest piece of software in mass-marketting history?
Update: Ok, it has nothing to do with the version of IE specifically and everything to do with some oddball dependency they have on the "normal" setting of 96 DPI fonts. This bug was reported back in December and they still haven't made a fix for it yet.
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Date: 2005-03-22 03:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-22 03:18 am (UTC)Doc
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Date: 2005-03-22 02:06 pm (UTC)We did download the forms from teh website, though. Several times, as he used pen before we were ready.
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Date: 2005-03-22 08:58 pm (UTC)