Yes, IE is always the fly in the ointment, so to speak. Or maybe the fly in
your soup or some other equally
unappetizing metaphor.
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Greg Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't want the app to save directly to disk, just pop something to
> allow the user to do it. "data:" does the trick on firefox, very cool.
> Check this out:
>
> <canvas debug="true" height="200" width="500">
> <dataset name="foo">Here is some xml.</dataset>
> <button onclick="LzBrowser.loadURL('data:text/xml,'+foo.serialize(),
> '_blank')">Click me</button>
> </canvas>
>
> No such luck in IE (7.0):
> Protocol Type: data
> Description: UnKnown
> Windows does not recognize this Protocol.
>
> After a brief search, here's a "pluggable protocol handler" for IE
> "data:". Note that this project was created for basically the same
> reason, a AJAX app with data already in the browser.
> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/DataProtocol.aspx?display=Print
>
> Thanks a bunch.
>
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Henry Minsky
Software Architect
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