The Old New Thing

July 21, 2014 - The Old New Thing

The alternate story of the time one of my colleagues debugged a line-of-business application for a package delivery service

July 21, 2014 Jul 21, 2014 07/21/14
Raymond Chen
Some people objected to the length, the structure, the metaphors, the speculation, and fabrication. So let's say they were my editors. Here's what the article might have looked like, had I taken their recommendations. (Some recommendations were to text that was also recommended cut. I applied the recommendations before cutting; the cuts are...

How can I get the URL to the Web page the clipboard was copied from?

July 21, 2014 Jul 21, 2014 07/21/14
Raymond Chen
When you copy content from a Web page to the clipboard and then paste it into OneNote, OneNote pastes the content but also annotates it "Pasted from ...". How does OneNote know where the content was copied from? As noted in the documentation for the HTML clipboard format, Web browsers can provide an optional property to specify the Web ...