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Re: [ECS] ECS help Scott Reston Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:12:51 -0500

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i'm not much of a programmer, but is it possible to just send a shell-open to windows
and let windows handle what to do with the file (based on its extension) 
rather than writing separate code to talk to each browser? then you're prepared for
other browsers than netscape and ie...

just my 2 cents...



scott reston
ih8gates@concentric.net
http://www.indelible-blue.com/meetib/scott/

On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:33:20 -0700, Mark Gilmore wrote:

>Well, I have it all licked, less one problem:
>IE4 treats disk-resident .HTMLs and/or "fragment
>identifiers" (e.g. "#tts") "differently".
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>For example:
>If I first pull up ECS.HTM, and then append "#tts" to
>"ECS.HTM" and press <Enter>, I get an "ADDRESS BAR"
>error ("cannot find the file or item...").
>This does NOT occur in Netscape.
>But I note that Netscape changes disk files to read
>"file:///..." whereas IE4 does NOT.
>If I enter the same "file:///..." in IE4, it just
>truncates the "#tts".

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