This may be of interest: Abiword Plugin for mozilla http://abimoz.mozdev.org
At the moment it only works for a very particular version of RedHat Linux and Mozilla, and it does not have a nice XPI (mozilla Cross platform installer or anything like that) but with a little promotion people might be encourage to get it to work other versions of linux and maybe other operation systems too. The Abiword Plugin for Mozilla is as a result of work done by Oeone. http://oeone.com/ Sincerely Alan Horkan On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Eric Thomas wrote: > Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:48:38 +0700 > From: Eric Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: F J Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: opening abiword from an html link > > That was exactly the ticket!! > > Thanks for the help Frank! > > Eric > > At 09:00 AM 8/9/2002 +0100, F J Franklin wrote: > >On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Eric Thomas wrote: > > > I'm having a bit of a problem with opening an abiword document from a web > > > link. I've written a script to automatically create abiword documents > > from > > > a template file with data supplied from a database. The script then > > writes > > > an HTML page with a link to the document. On clicking the link, however, > > > the browser just displays the source as an XML file. > > > >I think there are two steps to this: > > > >1. configure your web-server to serve .abw files with MIME info: > > application/x-abiword (I think) > > > >2. instruct users to associate MIME-type "application/x-abiword" with > > AbiWord in MSIE's "Preferences"->"Receiving Files"->"File Helpers" > > section. > > > >(I haven't tried this myself, though.) > > > >Otherwise, I'm not sure. There may be a way to use J[ava]Script to prompt > >IE to open a link in a given application. > > > >Regards, Frank > > > >Francis James Franklin > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >"No, she really likes me. She told me I look like Britney Spears, and why > >would you say that to somebody you don't like?" > > --- Elle Woods > > Thanks, > Eric > > ----------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > unsubscribe in the message body. > ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
