>> The web browser will launch MS Word every time it sees a >> document with the mime-type 'application/msword'. < > Can I add only to this section that MIME types were never originally > intended for use within browsers; they were supposed to be used only for > email
Very true. > In the early days editing > this registry was given a full GUI, but this has now > largely disappeared. I was not aware that this type of control had largely disappeared. > In the case of Safari, it seems that the MIME > registry is built automatically from whatever is present in the > /Library/Internet plug-ins folder, which means that since .jar > application are >not< recognised as a plug-in, they cannot be > defined in the MIME registry. I assume that the files that are in the plug-ins folder must comply with some loader format. We should continue to search-the-web to see if we can uncover the mechanism that they use to launch helper-apps (if any). If that fails, then there is another option that we could explore ... we could try using the 'plug-in' mechanism to launch Jmol as a helper-application. Someone could write a very small small plug-in in C/C++ for Safari that does two things: 1. Displays "Jmol Plug-in Hack" in the the browser window 2. Launches the jmol application outside the browser. Robert, this is a task that one of your students could handle. Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
