This issue report complains that Edge doesn’t stream AAC files and instead tries to download them. It notes that, in contrast, URLs that point to MP3s result in a simple audio player loading inside the browser. Edge has always supported AAC so what’s going on? The issue here isn’t about AAC, per-se; it’s instead about whether or notContinue reading “Streaming Audio in Edge”
Category Archives: dev
ShellExecute Doesn’t
My oldest supported Windows application is a launcher app named SlickRun, and it’s ~24 years old this year. I haven’t done much to maintain it over the last few years, although it’s now available in 64-bit and runs great on Windows 10. (Thanks go to Embarcadero, who now offer a free “Community” edition of Delphi, theContinue reading “ShellExecute Doesn’t”
Cookies and Concurrency, Redux
Note: This post concerns Edge Legacy (aka Spartan) and does not apply to the modern Chromium-based Edge. In yesterday’s episode, I shared the root cause of a bug that can cause document.cookie to incorrectly return an empty string if the cookie is over 1kb and the cookie grows in the middle of a DOM document.cookieContinue reading “Cookies and Concurrency, Redux”
ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER and Concurrency
Many classic Windows APIs accept a pointer to a byte buffer and a pointer to an integer indicating the size of the buffer. If the buffer is large enough to hold the data returned from the API, the buffer is filled and the API returns S_OK. If the buffer supplied is not large enough toContinue reading “ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER and Concurrency”
Building your .APP website with NameCheap and GitHub Pages–A Visual Guide
I recently bought a few new domain names under the brand new .app top-level-domain (TLD). The .app TLD is awesome because it’s on the HSTSPreload list, meaning that browsers will automatically use only HTTPS for every request on every domain under .app, keeping connections secure and improving performance. I’m not doing anything terribly exciting withContinue reading “Building your .APP website with NameCheap and GitHub Pages–A Visual Guide”
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