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Cross-Domain Communication Using Domain Lowering

More than a few blog posts ago I stated my intent to publish a series of articles on cross-domain communication techniques. More time has passed than I had intended, but at last here is the start of that series of articles. The series will explore progressively Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:52 PM by dthorpe | 3 Comments

MSN's The Podium 08 - Built On Silverlight

MSN just launched The Podium '08 as part of their 2008 US Presidential election coverage. The Podium '08 brings together data on presidential candidates for voters and election followers to explore by topic and compare candidates head to head on specific Read More...
Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 4:54 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments

Windows Live SkyDrive

Windows Live SkyDrive (formerly known as Folders) is now in beta, enabling end users to store arbitrary data on the web under password access control. Files can be accessed over http(s) from web pages and from stand-alone client applications (thanks to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:58 AM by dthorpe | 2 Comments

New In The Windows Live Contacts Control: Incremental Search!

Another month, another release! This month we've added incremental search to the contacts and presence controls to make it easier to find a particular contact in your haystack of hundreds of family, friends, and coworkers. Just type in a few letters of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 3:01 PM by dthorpe | 6 Comments

Custom Colors in the Windows Live Web Controls

The Windows Live Web Controls now support custom colors! The Windows Live Contacts web control and Windows Live Spaces web control now accept additional parameters to specify the text and background colors of the inner and outer regions of the controls Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:26 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

Secure Cross-Domain Communication: The Architecture Journal

The June issue (Journal 12) of The Architecture Journal focuses on web architecture. I was delighted to be invited to contribute, and wrote "Secure Cross-Domain Communication in the Browser" for this issue. In the article I describe a somewhat bizarre Read More...
Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 3:53 PM by dthorpe | 2 Comments

New Domains for Windows Live Web Controls

Our little web controls are growing up so fast! We've migrated the Windows Live Contacts web control and Windows Live Spaces web control to new servers in the Microsoft datacenters and a new domain name: controls.services.live.com . The web controls will Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:42 PM by dthorpe | 3 Comments

Undisclosed Browser Technology

When people ask what I worked on at Google and I answer "undisclosed browser technology", I think some folks think I'm just being coy or obnoxious. The truth is, I'm required to say that publicly and privately until Google publicly announces the technology Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:29 AM by dthorpe | 5 Comments

A Cross-Domain Silverlight Channel 9 VideoRSS Player

Last week Kevin Ledley, keeper of the dev.live.com content, asked me for a bit of help to get a Silverlight video player working. He wanted to "borrow" the cool scrolling video list and video player from our sister site, msdn2.microsoft.com and set it Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:26 AM by dthorpe | 3 Comments

Hosting Silverlight On A Server That Won't Host .JS Files

Torontonian " wavesmash " has been tinkering with getting a Silverlight app up and running on his Blogger blog. Silverlight Streaming got him most of the way there, but he found the recommended pattern of placing the Silverlight control construction in Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:10 PM by dthorpe | 3 Comments

HTML Namespace Attributes and IE document.namespaces

A few posts ago I promised to elaborate on a little gotcha that bit us in the butt while prepping the "blocks" to enable Popfly apps to use the Windows Live Contacts web control and Windows Live Spaces web control . Here it is: IE has a handy document.namespaces Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 27, 2007 11:27 AM by dthorpe | 0 Comments

Silverlight XPS Document Reader Proof-Of-Concept

Delay started out poking around in the XPS document format. Before he could stop himself, he had an XPS document reader implemented in Silverlight ! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:38 PM by dthorpe | 0 Comments
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More: Avoiding Popup Windows in Your Web Apps

Scott Isaacs shares some additional "best practices" points on dealing with popup windows and popup blockers: Always program window.open() very defensively... Always try catch any calls to window.open() and if you are retaining a reference to the window Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 6:10 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

Popfly: Mashups Made Easy

Today John Montgomery 's NPT team launched Microsoft Popfly , a web-based development environment for building web applications with little or no code. John shares some background and history on his blog , but what you really ought to see first is the Read More...
Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 2:05 PM by dthorpe | 1 Comments

Avoiding Popup Blockers in Your Web Apps

Tim Heuer laments the growing number of otherwise reputable web sites that instruct their flocks to disable popup blockers in order to complete some task within that web site. Having stumbled into popup blocker hell myself only a few months ago with the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 2:51 PM by dthorpe | 2 Comments
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