10th April 2001
Coming from the "One Line Pony" Department, Lockergnomie Dave Lindquist provides further insight into launching a fresh Web page from the Start Menu's Run dialog. First, I found out that Windows 2000 will accept spaces in 'Run' arguments, whereas Windows 98 will not (at least, not without surrounding quotation marks). We have to place extra spaces in command strings (due to formatting constraints); unless otherwise indicated, you may remove them when you try the trick(s). Now, I also discovered that you can create a simple Web page through invoking the classic Web browser "about" command. For instance, in the Address field of your browser (or the Run command line), enter: about:blank (with no space). Easy enough. Now, you can also use HTML! Try this: about:<body bgcolor="teal"> (with spaces). That color looks familiar, eh? View the page's source and you'll see that you've got the beginnings of a Web document. You see, anything you place after "about:" will be interpreted as HTML.