{"id":3573,"date":"2009-06-04T11:01:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T15:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2009-06-04T11:04:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T15:04:12","slug":"mailtomailtomailtomailto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3573","title":{"rendered":"mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day when I was writing the post about programming<\/a>, I wanted to look at the NeHe site and figure out who was the original creator of the thing. (It has multiple contributors now.) I shuffled through the pages, came up empty, and then clicked on the “contact us” link. Suddenly, it was 1998 again:<\/p>\n

ie_sucks.jpg<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

The page uses some ill-behaved javascript to create a mailto: link, and for some reason this invoked Internet Explorer. I’m not sure how that happened. Firefox is my default browser and Thunderbird is my default client. There shouldn’t be any cases or links which can bring up IE. (This was alarming, since I’ve never bothered to upgrade IE and so I’m using the virus-friendly IE6.) I don”t know if it was the fault of the javascript or IE, or some beautiful synergy between the two, but the result was a cascade of 60 IE windows. I haven’t had this happen to me since the olden days of pop-under ads, homepage-poaching, and porn-storms in the late 90’s. Unlike in the olden days, this actually stopped without me needing to reboot the machine. <\/p>\n

Still, I haven’t had something like that happen in almost 10 years. Strange. And a little worrisome. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day when I was writing the post about programming, I wanted to look at the NeHe site and figure out who was the original creator of the thing. (It has multiple contributors now.) I shuffled through the pages, came up empty, and then clicked on the “contact us” link. Suddenly, it was 1998 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}