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Extending Internet Explorer to use a credit card machine and cash drawer

I have a software application which is currently a win forms application using an embedded IE web browser control. The win forms application provides access to an attached credit card machine and cash drawer to the web site running in the IE web control. Its does this by creating JavaScript objects in the IE web browser control which the web applications calls to do operations such as perform a credit card swipe or open a cash drawer. Those js objects are mapped to methods in the win forms application which then interacts with the devices. Its a pretty cool solution except that the embedded IE web control lacks all of the great development tools of a standard web browser window. So…

Extending Internet Explorer to use a credit card machine and cash drawer

I have a software application which is currently a win forms application using an embedded IE web browser control. The win forms application provides access to an attached credit card machine and cash drawer to the web site running in the IE web control. Its does this by creating JavaScript objects in the IE web browser control which the web applications calls to do operations such as perform a credit card swipe or open a cash drawer. Those js objects are mapped to methods in the win forms application which then interacts with the devices. Its a pretty cool solution except that the embedded IE web control lacks all of the great development tools of a standard web browser window. So…

Old Browsers and Polyfills

Polyfilling, when is it too much? I’ve summed up this question into one sentance. Is it practical to polyfill all of the IE8 deficiencies with one solid javascript file, as in, would there be any drawbacks (performance) or blockages (impossibility to polyfill some features)? Question Deprecation: (history) I’ve been working with my company for about […]