Chrome is unable to execute VB script

[Fernando Carvalho]

I was browsing a website that had a "<script Language= "VBScript">" on
it's code and I realized that any browser different from MS Internet
Explorer is unable to handle this kind of script.

I tested many browser, like Firefox, Chrome and Opera, and none of
them executed the script.
I fear that it is why people install IE on Linux.

Please, try to add support for this kind of script on Chrome, so we
can in no time get rid of Microsoft IE.

[PhistucK]

No, please, ask the webmasters of these website to replace the VBScript with JavaScript.

VBScript is a proprietary language of Microsoft. I am not sure, but I believe you cannot just support it in your product without a permission (or cost) from Microsoft.

Not sure, though. Still, the first line I wrote - follow it. :P

☆PhistucK

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[Fernando Carvalho]

How people with Chrome OS will open these pages?
Their netbooks are going to run only a browser and everything that
they can do is on web.
Then I think that the whole web must be compatible with chrome os to
people fell confident of it's power.
I don't think that there should be any problems in implementing Visual
Basic script support.

On 12 abr, 07:00, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, please, ask the webmasters of these website to replace the VBScript with
> JavaScript.
>
> VBScript is a proprietary language of Microsoft. I am not sure, but I
> believe you cannot just support it in your product without a permission (or
> cost) from Microsoft.
> Not sure, though. Still, the first line I wrote - follow it. :P
>
> ☆PhistucK
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:53, Fernando Carvalho <
>
>
>
> fernandocarvalhocoe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was browsing a website that had a "<script Language= "VBScript">" on
> > it's code and I realized that any browser different from MS Internet
> > Explorer is unable to handle this kind of script.
>
> > I tested many browser, like Firefox, Chrome and Opera, and none of
> > them executed the script.
> > I fear that it is why people install IE on Linux.
>
> > Please, try to add support for this kind of script on Chrome, so we
> > can in no time get rid of Microsoft IE.
>
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[Alexander Skwar]

The logic goes like this:

People using non-MS browsers can't open VB ridden

pages. If there are enough people who cannot use the

page because the coder used some non-standard language,

then enough people will complain and enough people

will not use the page. Hence it's in the best interest

of the page maker to create a non-VB page.

And, to be honest, it's quite hard to find VB pages in

the wild, isn't it? Sure, on company intranets this

is a completely different story.

Alexander

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[Fernando Carvalho]

I know this.
But since we have Microsoft out there doing peoples head to make code
using their junk and drugs we are threatened and we should be aware of
it.

On Apr 12, 9:47 am, Alexander Skwar <a.sk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The logic goes like this:
>
> People using non-MS browsers can't open VB ridden
> pages. If there are enough people who cannot use the
> page because the coder used some non-standard language,
> then enough people will complain and enough people
> will not use the page. Hence it's in the best interest
> of the page maker to create a non-VB page.
>
> And, to be honest, it's quite hard to find VB pages in
> the wild, isn't it? Sure, on company intranets this
> is a completely different story.
>
> Alexander
>

> 2010/4/12 Fernando Carvalho <fernandocarvalhocoe...@gmail.com>

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[Alexander Skwar]

Certainly true. CMIIW, but in Europe, about 40% of the internet

users use Firefox. And some others use Opera, Chrome, Safari

and "misc." browsers. IE. >= 50% use non-MS browsers.

If a company doing stuff "for the masses" on the internet wants

to stay in business, then it's in their own best interest to not (only)

use MS-only stuff (ie. VBScript, in this case). Hence I don't really

see the issue (for internet related things).

OTOH, I think it would be *WRONG* to include VBScript in Chromium,

even if it were possible, because this would play into the hands 

of Microsoft. That's surely something, that nobody can want to

do.

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[Fernando Carvalho]

I agree with you.

On Apr 12, 10:19 am, Alexander Skwar <a.sk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Certainly true. CMIIW, but in Europe, about 40% of the internet
> users use Firefox. And some others use Opera, Chrome, Safari
> and "misc." browsers. IE. >= 50% use non-MS browsers.
>
> If a company doing stuff "for the masses" on the internet wants
> to stay in business, then it's in their own best interest to not (only)
> use MS-only stuff (ie. VBScript, in this case). Hence I don't really
> see the issue (for internet related things).
>
> OTOH, I think it would be *WRONG* to include VBScript in Chromium,
> even if it were possible, because this would play into the hands
> of Microsoft. That's surely something, that nobody can want to
> do.
>

> 2010/4/12 Fernando Carvalho <fernandocarvalhocoe...@gmail.com>

[krtulmay]

Fernando, you are just realizing this now, in 2010?

This incompatibility with VBScript and also with ActiveX components
and anything else Microsoft-proprietary is not new. Non-IE browsers
have not been able to run these technologies for the past 10 years.

This is *not* a problem with non-IE browsers and definitely supporting
this should *not* be added to Chrome nor any other non-IE browsers.
Rather website designers should ideally be told to create their
webpages that use web standards, or at least provide a version of the
webpages that works in non-IE browsers.

On Apr 12, 11:26 am, Fernando Carvalho