<div dir="ltr">It's not easy to do it. The best way would be 1. with web apps 2. to devote loads of resources to WINE so things can get better. They are doing a great job but can always use more incentive. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Derek Broughton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:news@pointerstop.ca">news@pointerstop.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Dotan Cohen wrote:<br>
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> 2008/12/11 norman <<a href="mailto:norman@littletank.org">norman@littletank.org</a>>:<br>
>>From my experience the most useful and flexible financial software is<br>
>> that marketed by Sage. There are several versions suitable for<br>
>> business from small to large. I used to teach computerised accounting<br>
>> and Sage was the only software considered to be suitable for training<br>
>> and examination. I have written to them some 3 years ago when Ubuntu<br>
>> was getting going but received the standard reply that they had no<br>
>> plans to port their software to Linux.<br>
<br>
</div>imo, there is no accounting software to beat SQL-Ledger... The biggest<br>
problem with it is that it's all written in Perl :-(<br>
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> Wow, their website is terrible. It assumes a specific browser width,<br>
> and a specific font setting as well. The Javascript is _slow_ and<br>
> worse yet, they are using Javascript to reimplement built in HTML form<br>
> features, such as dropdown lists.<br>
<br>
</div>I haven't looked, but the usual reason to do that is that HTML forms do<br>
dropdown lists _very_ badly.<br>
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