Beware: URLs Are Pointers to Mutable Entitiestextslashplain.com3 points·by ericlaw·3 yıl önce·1 comments
ericlaw·9 ay önce·discussThe October 2025 Patch Tuesday patches locked down previews of files in the Windows Explorer shell. This post explains why.
ericlaw·3 yıl önce·discussAlmost everybody knows this, yet most of us don't think through the implications, leading to some surprising results.
ericlaw·3 yıl önce·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·8 yıl önce·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.