More On ASP.NET’s Broken Error Handling
December 10th, 2008 by nickfitz
I’ve looked a bit more into the way ASP.NET handles HTTP errors, and frankly it now seems not just irritating, but downright bizarre.
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Archive for the 'Bugs' Category
Why Can’t Microsoft Just Use HTTP Like Everybody Else?
December 7th, 2008 by nickfitz
A few moments ago I was following a link from Google to Raymond Chen’s excellent MSDN blog The Old New Thing. As has happened to me before, I ended up getting redirected to an ASP.NET error page at a totally different URL, telling me that the site was “unable to service my request.”
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IE Conditional Comments in XSLT 1.0
October 27th, 2005 by nickfitz
Zen gardener Dave Shea’s post Bye Bye Tan Hack attracted a number of comments from people claiming that Internet Explorer’s conditional comments (CCs) were ungeneratable if you are using XSLT to produce your pages. “Strange,” I thought, “I’ve done that before.”
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Obscure Internet Explorer Bugs: #1 of… who knows?
May 17th, 2005 by nickfitz
The Web Standards Group presented ten questions to Tommy Olsson, one of which addresses the thorny issue of the abbr and acronym elements in HTML.
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