The Old New Thing

January 13, 2006 - The Old New Thing

France, she is, how you say, on sale!

January 13, 2006 Jan 13, 2006 01/13/06
Raymond Chen
Marketplace reports on the start of the winter sale season in France. By law, retailers are permitted sales only twice a year, so the onset of sale season generates quite a bit of shopping madness. There is also a proposal to allow more sale periods, but opponents argue that doing so would harm smaller businesses. Coming from the land of ...

Why do words beginning with "home" get treated as URLs?

January 13, 2006 Jan 13, 2006 01/13/06
Raymond Chen
Vitaly from the Suggestion Box asked (with grammatical editing), Could you explain why Windows starts the web browser if the file name passed to ShellExecute starts with "home". First thing to note is that this URL-ization happens only after the function has tried all the other possible interpretations. If a file named "homestar" is ...