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windows media player 10 tech beta
I installed the WMP10 Tech Beta on my workstation here at work. At first I was mildy annoyed by some...
Author: jeffdav Date: 06/09/2004
i hate moving
This is the last time, I swear.
Author: jeffdav Date: 05/29/2004
thursday update
A quick post to let those of you who are interested know I am still around. I just got back from the...
Author: jeffdav Date: 05/27/2004
the black ink blot
Saw this today on metafilter. A CS grad student in Dublin has found a way to figure out what is...
Author: jeffdav Date: 05/13/2004
the importance of context
Almost every navigation in Internet Explorer results in a flurry of security checks. Many of these...
Author: jeffdav Date: 05/11/2004
the wrongness of "how do i disable right-click on my web site?"
This question comes up frequently and generally the asker really means, “How can I prevent...
Author: jeffdav Date: 05/06/2004
gee, that is a nice mouse
I inadvertently won a new Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer with Tilt Wheel Technology, the Look and...
Author: jeffdav Date: 04/22/2004
on calling refresh during onResize
From time to time I have come across web sites that do something like this: <body...
Author: jeffdav Date: 04/20/2004
a brief history of setHomePage()
I started working on IE right after IE 5.5 shipped. Since then, there is one little feature which...
Author: jeffdav Date: 04/13/2004
channel 9
If you have not had a chance to check out channel 9, click on over.
Author: jeffdav Date: 04/08/2004
direct to my wrist
I got one of these. It was given to me by a coworker. I have been wearing it. It entertains me in...
Author: jeffdav Date: 04/06/2004
we are hiring...
The Internet Explorer and Windows Core Shell teams are hiring developers. Interviews will be held in...
Author: jeffdav Date: 04/01/2004
new rock
I got the new Amadan CD in the mail on Monday. Their first CD was about halfway between Grafton...
Author: jeffdav Date: 03/31/2004
XP SP2 RC1
Last week we shipped SP2 RC1 for Windows XP. This is a Release Candidate and it is not intended to...
Author: jeffdav Date: 03/22/2004
now they are not even pretending
I saw this on Metafilter today. This ridiculous thing has eleven cosponsors! It does lead one to the...
Author: jeffdav Date: 03/16/2004
arthurz 2; nature 0
I went hiking with AZ again on saturday. My friend and coworker Raphael also came along. We targeted...
Author: jeffdav Date: 03/15/2004
television security and msn security
A news channel in North Carolina made a classic security mistake. This is similar to a mistake that...
Author: jeffdav Date: 03/09/2004
closed on sunday
It seems as if everything in Redmond closes on sunday. Even the “Brooklyn” bagel place....
Author: jeffdav Date: 03/02/2004
i would like to thank the acadamy...
...for providing me with something more boring then The Super Bowl. Bill Murray got robbed. I...
Author: jeffdav Date: 02/29/2004
fun with subways
When Dino and I were in New York we tried to make words by plotting clever courses through the...
Author: jeffdav Date: 02/27/2004
the methodology of making tea
The topic came up at our weekly monday morning status meeting. AJS noted my tea was 'frothier' then...
Author: jeffdav Date: 02/24/2004
ode to m
McAllister: Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams and I'll show you a happy man. John...
Author: jeffdav Date: 02/22/2004
KB832894 and missing POST data
I got a lot of questions about this after posting about 832894. Those of you experiancing this...
Author: jeffdav Date: 02/17/2004
avoiding script injection and other lessons
MSDN has had an article entitled Security Considerations: Dynamic HTML for a while. It is a good...
Author: jeffdav Date: 02/06/2004
security through identification
I am sure this is going to be linked to from all the big news sites today, but I am posting it as...
Author: jeffdav Date: 02/03/2004
KB832894 is now live at Windows Update
I recommend everyone visit Windows Update and install this patch. Here is the security bulletin...
Author: jeffdav Date: 02/02/2004
redirection
Some of you have been asking questions about the Manage Add-ons feature in IE for SP2. Jeremy has...
Author: jeffdav Date: 02/01/2004
super?
This is the most boring game I have ever seen.
Author: jeffdav Date: 02/01/2004
americans vs. swedes
Here in sunny Seattle, we have an infamous BBQ resturaunt that started life as an auto mechanic's...
Author: jeffdav Date: 01/29/2004
me fail english?
Raymond has been discussing how nice German is, since it is much simpler then English. But does it...
Author: jeffdav Date: 01/26/2004
pop-up manager and the webbrowser control
If you are hosting the webbrowser control, here is how you interact with IE's pop-up manager:...
Author: jeffdav Date: 01/26/2004
friday update
Here is what I have been up to: Last weekend I went to Whistler-Blackcomb with a subset of the...
Author: jeffdav Date: 01/23/2004
the ted kennedy account
Last night I watched the 2004 State of the Union Address with some friends. In my opinion, the...
Author: jeffdav Date: 01/21/2004
xpsp2 beta pop-up manager feedback
I thought I would take some time to respond to some of the feedback from the beta. First, we have...
Author: jeffdav Date: 01/14/2004
snowing in seattle
It is snowing in Seattle. It is rare that it snows this far outside of the mountains, and even rarer...
Author: jeffdav Date: 12/31/2003
the trials and tribulations of working on IE
RaymondC posted a story about a 3rd party plug-in crashing IE on purpose. These are the sorts of...
Author: jeffdav Date: 12/21/2003
why IE will only let you save as BMP
Sometimes you go to save an image from a web page and the only option available to you is BMP, even...
Author: jeffdav Date: 12/08/2003
hello nyc
in nyc visiting friends. dino, my fellow .net compatriot is with me. i suspected the food here might...
Author: jeffdav Date: 11/26/2003
fixed rss
should work now. i blame the tool.
Author: jeffdav Date: 11/24/2003
enums and DeleteMenu()
I wanted to add a menu item that had a child menu to one of the menus in the IE menu bar. I always...
Author: jeffdav Date: 11/12/2003
of cars and computers
Often I see or hear people comparing computers and cars to make a point. One such argument goes...
Author: jeffdav Date: 11/10/2003
document.write("hello world");
Hello. I work on Internet Explorer-- specifically the Browser UI team. And sometimes I have a life...
Author: jeffdav Date: 11/07/2003