Posted by Terry Pinnell on 09/27/07 07:21

"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:

>Terry Pinnell wrote:
>> I'm not entirely sure if this is OT or not, but wonder if anyone here
>> can offer any thoughts please.
>>
>> From my text editor, TextPad, I can open URLs like
>> http://goldwave.ca/forums/
>> directly, by r-clicking and choosing Open. I expect that's commonplace
>> with most text editors.
>>
>> I can also open a link to my local HD like this
>> file://D:/Docs/SUNDRY/Graphics/terry02.gif
>> in its associated application (in that case, IrfanView).
>>
>> Similarly, this one
>> file://D:/Docs/SUNDRY/Graphics/WEBGRA~1.HTM
>> opens in my Firefox browser.
>> (I could have avoided the 8.3 syntax by using this
>> file:///D:/Docs/SUNDRY/Graphics/Web%20Graphics%20on%20a%20Budget%20-%20Layers.htm
>> )
>>
>> But here's my problem. *Some* of the web pages I've saved are
>> incompatible with Firefox but *do* work in MSIE6. (Various reasons,
>> but typically some sort of Java issue.)
>
>I doubt it is a *Java* issue but maybe a *JavaScript* or *JScript* issue
>where someone did one of those "MSIE Only Pages"
>
>>
>> So my question is: how can I can amend a link like
>> file://D:/Docs/SUNDRY/Graphics/WEBGRA~1.HTM
>> so that it's forced to open in IE6, instead of the program associated
>> with HTM (Firefox)? FWIW, my IE6 is at the usual location
>> C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
>>
>
>Do you mean just for yourself of for everybody? If you mean the former
>and it is just a shortcut on your local machine then just edit the
>target of the shortcut and preface with the path to iexplore.exe
>
>"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
>file://D:/Docs/SUNDRY/Graphics/WEBGRA~1.HTM
>
>Or your can make a simple batch file like:
>
>rem withIE.cmd -----------------------------------
>@echo off
>
>set ARGS=%1
>shift
>rem single arg or pre-quoted? Just do it...
>if '%1' == '' goto DOIT
>
>:MULTIWORDS
>rem build multi-word path
>set ARGS=%ARGS% %1
>shift
>if not '%1' == '' goto MULTIWORDS
>rem add quotes around multi-word path
>set ARGS="%ARGS%"
>
>:DOIT
>rem start "%PROGRAMFILES%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" %ARGS%
>
>:END
>set ARGS=
>rem -------------------------------------------------
>
>put it on your desktop and drag/n drop html files on it or call with a
>cmd line. Of your it could be adapted for other apps... Personally I
>just right-click and use Open With... I have multiple browsers for
>testing, NN4.6-7.1 MSIE4-7, Opera7.4-9.2 FF2.0.0.7 and my default
>SeaMonkey 1.1.4
>
>If you mean the latter, for everyone else then you cannot. IF you tryed
>what would happen if I click the link on my Ubuntu box?

Thanks, appreciate that thorough response. I'll experiment along those
lines.

Some background...

I'm only using such links myself, i.e. locally on my PC. I've found
them useful in 'Help notes' in certain situations. For example,
suppose I'm using PaintShop Pro and want to make a fancy text page
(for a family DVD). I r-click in PSP's title bar and a menu pops up
(courtesy of a macro I wrote with another program). I select
'Help-Text Shadows' and get a text file displayed by my text editor.
It steps me through using PSP to add shadow.

Now, getting to the point, I quickly found it helpful to include in
that file local links to images, especially examples of the text
effect I'm pursuing. But more recently I've also started to add local
links to HTML files I've downloaded. A typical example would be a
detailed tutorial. One of these sites, rich in such tutorials, is due
to close down shortly, I've been told. So it makes better sense to use
local files rather than simply add URLs to my text file.

However, the particular site,
http://www.psplinks.com/content/Text_Effects.html and some of its
various links is also proving problematic in the way I described.

This morning I've established that it does indeed appear to be a Java
problem. Having tried once again to reach
http://www.psptips.com/4/readers/2dtxtur01.html
with the same results as before, I turned off Java in FF Options and I
could then access it OK.

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

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