11th April 2001

Good things come to those who crash. I was fussing with yesterday's tip when Internet Explorer performed an illegal operation; I believe improper HTML code threw it off track. Anyway, as it started to wonk out, I moved the window -- only to find a familiar context menu pop up. Ya know, the one you normally get when you right-click on a file? Hrm... this warranted an investigation. I opened up my local bookmarks file again and toyed with IE's title bar. I right-clicked on the window's upper-left- hand corner icon and... VIOLA! Too cool! I've noticed that this only happens with local and standalone documents. Give it a shot; drag & drop a GIF, JPG, or PNG onto IE's window. Or, open up an image directly from the Web. Now, do the right-clicky icon thing I just told you about. Now, when I'm viewing a non-embedded image in IE, I can open it in an alternative program or convert it on-the-fly without having to copy and save it first.