Archive for March, 2008

Full concerts on MSN Video

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

I was pointed towards a MSN Music video service called In Concert in a Lenny Kravitz press release sent to The Music Tank.

While the Kravitz show didn’t really spark any kind of interest, I did spend a few minutes around the video streaming service looking around for stuff I would actually enjoy.

For something obviously “Microsoft” and actively targeting a wide audience, they kind of have a nice choice of mainstream artists.

Notably, you can stream the Smashing Pumpkins and Chris Cornell — which mostly does Soundgarden songs — among established artists like Elton John.

Services like these are nice because things are neatly grouped and bow-tied, but it’s not making any effort of posting content that would allow for musical discovery. It’s a service that brings them money first and foremost and the showcased artists are filtered accordingly… and that will always seem inevitable for giant portal websites like MSN.

Can’t move focus to control?

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

So like me you spent 30 minutes trying to fix this Internet Explorer JavaScript error ?

Cant move focus to the control because its invisible , not enabled, or a type that does not accept the focus.

In that case don’t waste time trying to understand it, odds are you have conflicting ids in your document. Also, remember IE 7 and the previous versions are alone to think a name attribute should be treated like an id.