[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For some reason, the browser launcher in the MR/2 ICE email/news program > will launch Netscape, but not Mozilla from a URL in a message. > > Has there been any discussion of this here? > > It would stand to reason that there was some obvious difference between > what is required to launch the two browsers. Obvious to somebody, but not > to someone as slow as me. > > Some ICE users write rexx scripts that call Mozilla and are, in turn > called by ICE making a work around. Personally I have never gotten this > workaround to work. Too many messages about syntax for me to pick > through. > > I hope there is some hope of making this launch work without being a rexx > programmer. > > Jim L > Snip XX to Email
Dodos coded the name of the dde server as Netscape.exe, instead of querying for a server that offered the service. Believe at one time the query service did not work (pre-Warp 3.0, maybe pre-OS/2 2.0), else they were grossly lazy. Think of everything written since Netscape 2.02 became available for OS/2 that use DDE to talk to a web browser. Very few can withstand change of the default DDE server. BTW, they've hard coded the change of the default DDE server for this service to change in the default browser, another no-no. If you change the name of mozilla.exe to netscape.exe and edit all the path stuff for Netscape in config.sys to point to mozilla's location, and assuming you've enabled dde for mozilla, then Mozilla will answer the query for service. Everything that works with this simple change has hard coded the name Netscape as the DDE server. However, instead of this above, if you go to an url object and change the system wide default browser to mozilla, those applications that now start a mozilla session are correctly coded. The coding of the default browser as the default DDE server for this service is a system coding error which we cannot fix. Is my synopsis correct? Comments please. -- Bill <Memorial Day is May 27th>
