Ben Bucksch wrote: > > Matthew Thomas wrote: > > > > Whether a program allows particular filetypes to be openable > > directly from the Net is a completely separate issue from what the > > filetypeassociations are. > > And how do you decide that?
It's set in the Internet control panel, along with the association. Unfortunately, it's hidden in an `Advanced Options' pane <http://joshforman.com/Images/mapping.gif> which takes quite a bit of work to get to, so browsers need to provide a more obvious UI for it, as MSIE does <http://web.jet.es/catania/panexpl2.gif>. (The browser UI reads from, and writes to, the OS settings.) Annoyingly, Mozilla's UI for file associations has never worked -- the only association it lists is text/html. -- Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla UI Design component default assignee thing <http://mpt.phrasewise.com/>
