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I have a stupid fondness for the level of hacks that we all collectively developed for IE6-9. One of my favorites was tricking IE6/7 into supporting Base64-enco

I have a stupid fondness for the level of hacks that we all collectively developed for IE6-9. One of my favorites was tricking IE6/7 into supporting Base64-encoded images in CSS by essentially triggering Outlook rules. They're 100% things that shouldn't exist, mind you.

myfonj 3y ago
Hm, cannot recall this one, but it reminded me of another magical trigger: to make HTML file loaded from local file (or CD-ROM, or whatever non-Internet) one had to pretend that given file was "Saved from (Internet)" with magical HTML comment preambule such as \r\n in order to make that file execute JavaScript (or maybe even load other resources from relative locations). While searching for it now results let me to SO [1] and from there to (former) MSDN [2], so only now I know this has rad acronym: MOTW meaning "Mark of the Web". It could hardly be more arcane. [1] https://superuser.com/a/484428/50036 https://superuser.com/a/484428/50036 [2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/internet-explorer/ie-developer/compatibility/ms537628(v=vs.85)?redirectedfrom=MSDN https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/...