Cutting Edge - Form-based Programming in ASP.NET. Tips for Forms Programming [MSDN: .NET Framework and CLR]

In here it mentions that showModalDialog suffers from the fact that it cannot host a form without wrapping in an iframe - in Zeepe 7 we don't need the iframe hack.

It also mentions something I didn't know - a .NET generated form must post back to the same 'page'; reasonable I suppose but ....

ADSI Scriptomatic. The ADSI Scriptomatic is designed to help you write ADSI scripts; that is, scripts that can be used to manage Active Directory. [Microsoft Download Center]

This is fascinating for the differences it throws up between the HTA host and the web browser control:

1. There are some VBScript comments within the body of the document - these do not display in the hta host but display in IE/Webbrowser control host (e.g. Zeepe)
2. The info buttons (displayed once you've selected something from the two select lists) show when you start the application in IE/WebBrowser but not in HTA. The HTA host does not enable XP theme support so the border-style:none CSS attribute is sufficient to completely override the border style but this is not enough when themes are enabled; border-width:0 is required as well.

1. is particularly interesting - what is different about the HTA host? (You can get this from mshtml via clsid_htadocument rather than clsid_htmldocument).

The sample is also interesting in that to get HTA behaviour within Zeepe, you have to use the Zeepe page object and change some method calls - e.g. zpmObject.close() and zpmObject.ShowHTMLDialog rather than window.close() and window.showModalDialog(). Zeepe also doesn't handle the <HTA:> tag to pick up style info etc, you have to use a Zeepe style definition and Zeepe page object to get the same effect.

Google to fix blog noise problem. -noblog [The Register]

Ahh well, there goes my top spot and I can return once more to obscurity.

Microsoft-specific Google  I'm constantly amazed at how few people know about the Microsoft-specific Google site. The results almost always link back to somewhere on microsoft.com but the results seem to be somewhat more [cough] comprehensive than [sneeze] [rub eyes] MS's own search engine. [nudge] [nudge] Enjoy. [Sellsbrothers]

Well, I never knew Google had an entry page microsoft.html, I wonder how many others there are that are 'quick' entry points to search site:blahblah.com

... DotMenu would make a nice looking archive tool (not the most user friendly, but pretty high on the cool factor) You could click first for archive, then year, month, post. [ScottW's ASP.NET WebLog]

I've seen this sort of thing in Java/Flash, but not DHTML - impressive.

Bill Gates WinHEC 2003 Keynote

Gawd, how stonkingly boring.

Now, the most striking feature about Athens when you first walk up is the display: wide, high density, flat. It really has obvious consumer appeal, but we're seeing dramatic productivity benefits of a display of this type as well, both in our internal and third party research. For example, we're seeing a 30 percent improvement on time in task with large displays. We're also seeing a 17.4 percent improvement in reading speeds with high-density displays.

A bigger display gives 30% improvement on time in task? What the heck tasks were being done - I can type faster 'cos I have a larger display, I think not.