Beware: URLs Are Pointers to Mutable Entitiestextslashplain.com3 points·by ericlaw·قبل 3 سنوات·1 comments
ericlaw·قبل 9 أشهر·discussThe October 2025 Patch Tuesday patches locked down previews of files in the Windows Explorer shell. This post explains why.
ericlaw·قبل 3 سنوات·discussAlmost everybody knows this, yet most of us don't think through the implications, leading to some surprising results.
ericlaw·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss.com files still work fine on Windows; Visual Studio installs devenv.com, for example (IIRC, it's there for a somewhat wacky reason. See %PATHEXT%)
ericlaw·قبل 8 سنوات·discussMany "irrational" decisions are related to interactions with anti-bot/anti-fraud logic.I worked on IE in the days when there were many crazy conspiracy theories about silverlight and IE collaborating to ruin the open web. This sounds similar.