Standards?

[fleetfootmike]

We're Microsoft. We don't have to obey fucking STANDARDS.

In which Microsoft unilaterally remove support for

<protocol>://<user>:<password>@<site>/

URLs from IE with the latest security patch. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q834489 and weep.

(Yes, there's a registry hack to get round it. And yes, I know *why* they're doing it. )

Comments

Re:

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

From a heads up in my ISP's very clued up support newsgroup.

Otherwise I'd have missed it totally.

Re:

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I saw in The Register several days ago that they were planning to do that. My view is that if they want to cripple their own product that's their lookout, people will use alternatives which work (Opera, Mozilla, etc.)...