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My colleague developed an internal web application. This app works only in Internet Explorer, which means that I can't access it from my smartphone.

Is there any way to develop an application which will serve as a bridge between my smartphone and this web app, enabling me to use the web app from any other browser/mobile device?

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    That depends, what exactly is stopping it from working in other browsers? Does it use ActiveX? Does it have explicit check for IE? Some other reason? Commented Nov 10, 2013 at 12:55
  • I just want to know the concept of creating an app for accessing a website , for example we have a lot of third party apps tat are developed for logging in into our Facebook account right ,something like tat Commented Nov 10, 2013 at 13:56

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Nope.

You are attempting to find a technical solution to a human problem.

What you should do is to make pressure on your colleague to modify the web application to be W3C compliant and work with normal browsers.

Searching for workarounds would only make the problem grow: the web app would remain unusable outside IE, while growing over time, constantly hurting your company.

  • What if one day your company hires a person with a disability who can't use the app through IE?

  • What if Microsoft releases a version of IE which will break the compatibility with your app?

  • What if the person currently developing the web app leaves the company? Who would enjoy maintaining a web app which doesn't even care being compatible with any browser?

You (your company) lock yourself in a proprietary solution, and the worst one available on the market of browsers.

This is a mistake made by many companies a decade ago. The consequences were that those companies were not able to upgrade from IE 6 to anything else, and so would force their employees to use exclusively IE 6, forbidding any other browser.

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    To add to your 2nd bullet -- Internet Explorer 11 does not eve identify itself as Internet Explorer in a traditional way. This breaks some of Microsoft's own product experiences. Commented Nov 10, 2013 at 13:11
  • Omg!! Ok how exactly is it possible to develop an app that supports login to an another site? For example we have a lot of third party apps for Facebook and gmail right ? Commented Nov 10, 2013 at 13:54
  • @user108351: Are you talking about SSO? Commented Nov 10, 2013 at 14:26
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    I wouldn't even take seriously anyone that nowadays has the guts to develop a IE-only web application. Commented Nov 10, 2013 at 14:31
  • @MainMa, just a simple app tat will direct me to the database of a website Commented Nov 10, 2013 at 15:44

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