On 06/13/2011 05:19 PM, Sam Hart wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:23 PM, frankhunt<[email protected]> wrote: >> I know this is a Linux group but I also know that there is a bunch of >> smart, experienced people out there so . . . >> >> Made a small web site that is not on my server - just a bunch of html >> files and links. >> Simple enough - point the file manager (on Linux and on XP) at the >> index.html file, tell it to open and it works just fine - all the >> browsers worked fine, navigate around just fine. That is until I try it >> with Internet Exploder 8 on XP. IE will not follow SOME of the links >> but will follow others. In the document, the links look like >> ../../index.html when I hover the mouse over the link, it looks like: >> file:///D:/STAGES/DVD/index.html IE cannot figure that out (however >> Firefox can so I know the code is good). My guess is that there is a >> setting somewhere in IE that is "protecting me from internet evil" - and >> also protecting me from doing what I want to do. I know this is >> possible because I have seen web sites that run stand-alone from DVDs >> (which is what I ultimately want to do). >> >> Anybody got any help here? >> >> I've been fighting this all day and it is driving me straight to the >> liquor cabinet . . . > Depending upon the scope of the project, there are a lot of embedded > web-site options that you might want to look into. For example, the > one I've used a lot is TiddlyWiki: > > http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ > > Though, I'll admit I generally start with one of the templates from > http://www.tiddlytools.com/ which come pre-loaded with various plugins > (as I find the stock TiddlyWiki to be rather spartan). Even more > plugins, themes, etc can be found from the TiddlyVault: > > http://tiddlyvault.tiddlyspot.com/ > > I've used TiddlyWiki for things *like* what you're describing, and > even for full-fledged websites (for example, I used it when I uploaded > the former Open Source work from a company I used to work at to > SourceForge, http://leftovers.sourceforge.net/ ) > > If, however, you need something more specialized, then TiddlyWiki > might not be what you're looking for. > > ---Sam > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
That's not what I am looking for - I just want a simple set of web pages to be run off-line from a CD/DVD so they can be accessed where there is no internet connection. Like I said, this works fine with Firefox and others - just not with IE. -- frank hunt (L0F) R0B-ZAR1 befuddled linux admin erstwhile photographer hillsboro oregon _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
