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Vista’s Mail Suffers From Named Anchor Encoding Problems

 Aug, 11 - 2008   no comments   Things that are broken

One of my partners just informed me that Microsoft’s Windows Mail that currently ships with Vista suffers from the same URI encoding issues that I discussed in a previous post. “I have just discovered that the MS Mail client on Vista has the same problem as Apple Mail, when it comes to handling urls that include a “hash” component. […]


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Lazy developers, good libraries, and The 80/20 Rule

 Jul, 31 - 2008   no comments   Commentary

I was searching for something or other related to SWFAddress the other day, and ran across a blog post talking about the launch of SWFObject2 and SWFAddress2, and how handy they were for building usable Flash sites. No surprises there, they are in fact very handy. What caught my attention was this comment on the […]


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Handling URLEncoded SWFAddress Links with mod_rewrite

 Jul, 25 - 2008   5 comments   Things that are broken

OK, so browsers are not supposed to send named anchors (or anything after them) to the server. However, I noticed today that SWFAddress links like this: http://example.com/#/portfolio/myClient/myProject …when sent as plain text via email to an iPhone, get URL encoded when displayed in the mail client, so Safari receives the URL from Mail like this: […]


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