Microsoft.public.exchange is a better group since OWA, despite its confusing
name, is a part of Exchange not Outlook.

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After furious head scratching, AaronTJ asked:

| We are in the process of considering the appropriate platform for the
| first release of the next generation of our software we develop in
| house. Although not a classic example of a typical web application, we
| have several business reasons that may take us to a web deployment. I
| am researching the possibilities of what our interface would look like
| on the web.
|
| Outlook Web Access does a very good job of blurring the line between
| web application and desktop app. Looking at the source code it
| appears OWA 2003 is mostly accomplishing its look and feel with
| traditional HTML and a whole lot of JavaScript.
|
| Does anyone know if this assumption is correct? Was it developed with
| any developer tools to generate the scripts, or was it done with more
| traditional web development? We have a shop of developers very
| familiar with VB.NET and Visual Studio, but we would likely not be
| able to develop a web app comprised of hand-written JavaScript and
| HTML.
|
| Also, I am trying to find out what capabilities IE has that is not
| supplied by Firefox and Netscape (at least without a plug-in).
|
| If there is a more appropriate forum for this topic, please let me
| know.