Windows Phone Thoughts: The Most Irritating Internet Explorer Bug Ever Created

I try to keep everything on this site Pocket PC-related, at least tenuously, but sometimes I run across something so important I feel I should share it: for the past couple of months, I've been irritated by the fact that on all sorts of sites (PPCT included), small images wouldn't load. It's irritating to get a page full of small red X's, but even more so when it's your own site and server. At the time, I was using NetCaptor, so I emailed them to ask what as going on. They couldn't explain it. Then I switched to using MyIE2, and it kept happening. I hunted for an explanation myself, but gave up. Then I saw this note in a recent issues of Lockergnome Windows Daily, and guess what? I worked! If you have the same irritating bug, check this out:

"...he directed me to a specific thread on tek-tips.com. I was skeptical, but (having nothing to lose) the tweak was applied. This involves a little Registry diving, paddling to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Classes \ PROTOCOLS \ Name-Space Handler. It's suggested that 'http', 'https', and 'ftp' don't belong there - at least, with IE6 SP1 (when the bug was introduced). Leaving only the 'mk' key intact, we're instructed to restart our PC for any changes to take effect. I did. It worked. And there was much rejoicing. Immediately, I blitzed the URL to other friends who were facing the same bugaboo. So far, so good, so happy."

In my case, I had to delete an FTP key. I can still FTP normally, but now I can see every image on the page. How on earth do glaringly obvious bugs like this slip based the QA guys working on Internet Explorer? Does Microsoft really not care any more now that they've conquered the browser market? :|