Tony Schreiner's WebLogDeveloper - IE | Vista. Fighting complexity for 9 years and counting.IE Automation & Tabs- January 19, 2007 A comment to one of my other posts asked about how to launch IE and open several additional tabs. IE7 does not support specifying multiple URLs on the command line, but another way to do this is to use IE Automation to launch IE as an out-of-proc COM server and then call methods such as IWebBrowser2::Navigate2. While you can do this using C++ or any language that supports COM, the easiest is to use Windows Scripting Host. First, create a 'lanuchie.js' file using your favorite text editor,..http://blogs.msdn.com/tonyschr/archive/2007/01/19/ie-automation-amp-tabs.aspx Blogs- January 10, 2007 My coworker Jeff Davis posted about IE7 and the cyclical nature of blogging, especially for those of us working on things that haven't yet been publicly announced. It includes a great ship analogy, and having been on the "critical path" for most of IE7 development (and before that having endured all my Longhorn Alpha work being scrapped (not for technical reasons)) mentally I think I'm still out on shore leave to a bit of an extent. ;-) I tend to blog in bursts, with the prerequisite..http://blogs.msdn.com/tonyschr/archive/2007/01/09/blogs.aspx Menu Flickering Toggling Redux - Any Ideas- January 10, 2007 In a previous post I talked about a subtle bug between IE7 and the Office Handwriting recognition service that we discovered too late into IE7 to ship a work-around for, but described how end-users can fix this on their own. However, a couple users have noticed a similar problem that even affects IE6 and other applications, so I thought I'd throw the question out there to see if anybody else knows the answer: "I have been having the exact same problem for the last week with IE6. Like Jan..http://blogs.msdn.com/tonyschr/archive/2007/01/09/menu-flickering-toggling-redux-any-ideas... Client-side Code vs. Web 2.0- January 3, 2007 As a developer who specializes in client-side applications, I can't help but be amused and somewhat puzzled by some of the types of web-based applications people come up with. A great example are web sites that help resize and crop digital photos. There are actually a bunch of them out there; a few that were recently mentioned on digg.com (one of my favorite sites lately) include http:www.resizr.com and http:resizr.lord-lance.com. They seem to be missing the point. How could it possibly...http://blogs.msdn.com/tonyschr/archive/2007/01/02/client-side-code-vs-web-2-0.aspx Bloop! - Wow, pop-up ads still exist!- January 1, 2007 One thing that amused me as I mindlessly surfed the web while stuck in my parents house due to the snowstorm in Colorado was the number of sites that still attempt to show pop-up advertisements -- sites like cnn.com and weather.com, not just shady sites. I'm left wondering... did they not get the memo that not only are pop-ups annoying, but also every web browser released in the past several years blocks them (longer if you count extensions, since IE6 didn't until XP SP2 (which everybody..http://blogs.msdn.com/tonyschr/archive/2007/01/01/bloop-wow-pop-up-ads-still-exist.aspx |