Hi everybody,

Since this is my first blog(entry), I start with a short introduction about my person.My name is Andreas Pollak and I work for Microsoft Austria as a developer evangelist for ISVs. In this role I am responsible to help our ISVs to leverage the new and innovative technologies that Microsoft brings constantly to the market. We are providing events, programs and in special cases proof of concepts implementations. One of our focuses is to provide a good Know-how transfer to our partners.

"Mark of Web" - Have you ever heard of this?

Although this existed a long time ago, I was not aware of this "feature" recently. Harald my colleague produced a CD that contained a HTML-, autorun.inf-file and a bunch of MP3 files. The primary idea was that the user who puts the CD in the drive gets the HTML presented and can choose which audio file she wants to play. I used to be one of the first lucky beta-testers and tired that with internet explorer. But each time I tried to hear  the audio file by clicking on it, nothing did happen. Absolutely nothing! No error, no warning. As Internet explorer was not in the mood telling me why this happens I did some research and found the following article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/motw.asp

As I opened up the HTML-file in notepad I found a "mark of the web". Because Harald based the layout of the HTML on our blog-website, he first saved a draft of the webpage to his computer, thus implictly creating this tag with the url of our website. As soon as we removed this mark, the html worked as expected in IE.

Kind regards
  Andreas 

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