{"id":5273,"date":"2005-02-02T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2005\/02\/02\/setting-internet-explorers-home-page-by-drag-and-drop\/"},"modified":"2005-02-02T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-02T22:53:00","slug":"setting-internet-explorers-home-page-by-drag-and-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/setting-internet-explorers-home-page-by-drag-and-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Internet Explorer&#8217;s home page by drag and drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/hippietim\">Tim<\/a>, who worked on IE among other things in his career at Microsoft and now works on Hatteras, showed me tonight that you can set the home page in Internet Explorer&nbsp;by dragging the link from the Address bar to the Home icon on the toolbar.&nbsp; I had no idea.&nbsp; I burst out laughing.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a neat trick once you know it, but it never occurred to me.&nbsp; Perhaps it&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t change my home page.<\/p>\n<p>Someone&#8217;s going to tell me that it&#8217;s obvious, and I&#8217;m the only who didn&#8217;t know about it.&nbsp; Right.&nbsp; It&#8217;s an example of something that&#8217;s really convenient, if you need that sort of thing, but not very discoverable (unless you often drag things over toolbar buttons just to see what happens).<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim, who worked on IE among other things in his career at Microsoft and now works on Hatteras, showed me tonight that you can set the home page in Internet Explorer&nbsp;by dragging the link from the Address bar to the Home icon on the toolbar.&nbsp; I had no idea.&nbsp; I burst out laughing.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-5273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Tim, who worked on IE among other things in his career at Microsoft and now works on Hatteras, showed me tonight that you can set the home page in Internet Explorer&nbsp;by dragging the link from the Address bar to the Home icon on the toolbar.&nbsp; I had no idea.&nbsp; I burst out laughing.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}