On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 09:40:09AM -0400, Ivan Krsti�? wrote: > On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:52 AM, Martin Dengler wrote: > [main point]
No response? > >1. It's clearly academic, as in the rest of the world this > >"launch-by-clicking-URL" behavior is about as prevalent as the common > >cold. > > It "clearly" isn't, because part of the difficulty is that we're > talking about code execution, which is what launch-by-click into any > of the execution environments (Pippy, eToys, etc) amounts to. No > mainstream browser supports launch-by-click for executables. I'm conflating "launch-an-existing-app-with-input-by-clicking" with "launch-a-downloaded-app-by-clicking", yes. My mainstream browsers (Firefox GNU/Linux, Firefox win32, IE win32) give me very similar, if not the same, UI for these two situations. So I think my point is still a valid description of the prevalence of this behavior. In fact, the statement > No mainstream browser supports launch-by-click for executables. ...seems false. I just tried an IE 7.0 install I have, and it does in fact support "launch-by-click" for executables: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe ...yields: http://dev.laptop.org/~mdengler/launch-by-click-ie.jpg ...so perhaps I need a different understanding of "launch-by-click" for executables. Please accept my apologies for wasting your/others time if I've misunderstood. > -- > Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://radian.org Martin
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