Tony Schreiner's Blog
Developer - IE | Edge | UX | Privacy | Web Graphics | HTML Platform Infrastructure | Windows. Fighting complexity for 20 years and counting. Technology enthusiast.
High DPI Displays
I've made several posts around high DPI displays and am proud to announce that every display I use...
Date: 09/10/2016
Windows 8 on MacBook Pro with Retina display
One of the great things about Windows is how it works on a wide variety of hardware. After reading a...
Date: 08/29/2012
IE9 Platform Preview Available - with SVG!
As the Official IE Blog notes, the IE Platform Preview is now available for download. As a graphics...
Date: 03/16/2010
HD View - Gigapixel Images and More
Yesterday I stumbled across HD View which utilizes the very interesting new HD Photo format plus...
Date: 03/19/2007
IE Automation & Tabs
A comment to one of my other posts asked about how to launch IE and open several additional tabs....
Date: 01/19/2007
Blogs
My coworker Jeff Davis posted about IE7 and the cyclical nature of blogging, especially for those of...
Date: 01/09/2007
Menu Flickering / Toggling Redux - Any Ideas?
In a previous post I talked about a subtle bug between IE7 and the Office Handwriting recognition...
Date: 01/09/2007
Client-side Code vs. Web 2.0
As a developer who specializes in client-side applications, I can't help but be amused and somewhat...
Date: 01/03/2007
Bloop! - Wow, pop-up ads still exist!
One thing that amused me as I mindlessly surfed the web while stuck in my parents house due to the...
Date: 01/01/2007
The Best Massively Multiplayer Real-time Online Game of All Time
Back in college, in 1996 (I believe) I frequently played the pre-release version of SubSpace, a...
Date: 12/12/2006
Interface Smuggling
While I'm on the subject of COM and extension compatibility, another issue that affected a small...
Date: 12/11/2006
Space Shuttle Analogies
First, congratulations to everybody who contributed to the successful launch of the space shuttle...
Date: 12/09/2006
My Toolbar or BHO is Causing IE7 on Vista to Crash on Close. Help!
During the development of IE7, one problem we discovered was that a small number of extensions have...
Date: 12/08/2006
IE7 Tabbed Browsing Q & A
I'm working on some long-overdue posts about tabbed browsing, but before I get too deep into them...
Date: 12/06/2006
IE7 Menu Flickering / Toggling Glitch
Just before we shipped IE7 we heard sporadic reports of a "Heisenbug" where users would click a tab...
Date: 12/06/2006
Bringing the Menus to the Top in IE7
In the IE7 Beta 2 Preview the UI element that hosts menus and 3rd party toolbars is located between...
Date: 01/31/2006
Use the official IE7 Preview, not the leaked build
Or: When is 5296 > 5299? Many people who managed to get a hold of the leaked IE7 7.0.5299.0 build...
Date: 01/31/2006
Download the IE7 Beta 2 Preview!
The IE blog has announced the availability of the first public beta for IE7: IE7 Beta 2 Preview....
Date: 01/31/2006
The Inline Returns Option
Using my last example, Stuart Ballard pointed out that using inline returns is another way to avoid...
Date: 01/26/2006
More Micro-optimizations
Here's another micro-optimization that I'm not very fond of. I should note that we don't really...
Date: 01/25/2006
The Risk of Micro-optimizations - follow-up
In yesterday's post I gave an example of a bug where an attempted micro-optimization combined with a...
Date: 01/24/2006
The Risk of Micro-optimizations
A lot of things have been said over the years about premature optimization, and after running into...
Date: 01/23/2006
RAW Conversion and Photo Manipulation
Last fall I purchased a digital SLR: the popular (and relatively inexpensive) Canon Rebel XT. I had...
Date: 01/17/2006
Bug Triage
Eric Sink has a good article on the process of triaging bugs. In it he pokes a little bit of fun at...
Date: 01/12/2006
Toolbar Compatibility Debugging Walkthrough
In the past I’ve found debugging walkthroughs useful for picking up new techniques. In that spirit...
Date: 01/09/2006
How ! to code
A little rant to prove I'm still alive. :-) Here's a pattern I see every now and then that makes my...
Date: 10/04/2005
MSN's Tabbed Browsing
In a future post I will talk about some of the challenges relating to building Tabbed Browsing as an...
Date: 06/09/2005
IE7 Tabbed Browsing Details
I've added some details about the IE7 Tabbed Browsing implementation up on the IE blog. Check it...
Date: 05/26/2005
Desktop Heap Limitations
If you have a lot of applications open one thing you might notice is that Windows -- even XP -- will...
Date: 05/25/2005
Tabs in Internet Explorer 7
The IE blog has an announcement about Tabbed Browsing in IE7. One of the reasons this blog has been...
Date: 05/16/2005
XP SP2 fixes
One interesting change I discovered in XP SP2 was that Subspace Continuum -- the first and (by far)...
Date: 07/25/2004
Internet Explorer in XP SP2 RC2
First, I'll join everybody else in announcing that XP SP2 RC2 is available for download! If you've...
Date: 06/15/2004
Breaking-in electronics
For best performance, you should make sure to break in your cables. Otherwise, you may be getting...
Date: 06/14/2004
Expression 3: Vector drawing application available for download
As others have pointed out, Microsoft has made available a free download of Expression 3, apparently...
Date: 06/07/2004
My MSN
I'm not sure when the changes happened, so this could be really old news, but I was pleasantly...
Date: 05/29/2004
A Good MP3 Player
Check out these features: Supports MP3 and WMA (and mounts as a hard drive) 4 GB storage 10+ hr...
Date: 05/13/2004
Getting the flat menus back in Windows XP
I'm not sure if anybody else has this problem, but after I have used XP for a while the menus seem...
Date: 05/10/2004
High DPI in IE: Tip & Mystery Solved
On his blog (and in a comment on my 120 DPI post) Omar points out a super-secret registry tweak make...
Date: 05/05/2004
Notepad Replacement
Omar Shahine links to a notepad replacement, including instructions for bypassing System File...
Date: 04/30/2004
Fonts on XP
Scoble and Dudley are having a debate about fonts and I can't help but think the little screenshot...
Date: 04/28/2004
PQI Intelligent Stick
Last year, when visiting the new Fry's in Renton, I ran across one of these, and bought it...
Date: 04/25/2004
Enabling Remote Desktop, remotely
Let's say you're in a situation where you can't log into your XP machine because you forgot to click...
Date: 04/19/2004
Internet Explorer Wiki
Channel9 now has a section dedicated to IE. Jump on in!...
Date: 04/17/2004
IE in XP SP2 (Part 4): Opting-in to IE Security Features
Many of the security features I've mentioned in previous entries are opt-in, so if you have a custom...
Date: 03/30/2004
IE in XP SP2 (Part 3): Web Site Compatibility
See Also: Authenticode - No, and never again! and Information Bar - Stopping the modal dialog...
Date: 03/30/2004