Obviously too easy an answer ;-) I have safari set as the default for html docs as well as the default browser; but as you say, you don't want to do that. How about a filter to run a script changing the creator of the file. I'd like to see something like that for all the text files I receive that automatically open with MS Word, for example.
On 2/22/06 9:28 PM Rick Lecoat wrote: >Thanks Paul, but Safari is already set as my default web browser -- and >has been so for two or three years now. I don't know why certain HTML >files get assigned Explorer as their 'open with...' parameter. > >Apart from the PM issue, the only time that I normally see Internet >Explorer-assigned documents is with HTML Help files supplied on a 3rd >party disk image (eg. shareware) where presumably the author has, for >their own reasons, actively assigned Explorer as the creator. But why >the HTML portion of an email (which, as I understand it, gets separated >off from the 'rest' of the email -- headers, plain text content, etc -- >by Powermail) should have Internet Explorer assigned as its creator is a >mystery. > >(Note that this only applies to those HTML mails for which PM is unable >display the HTML in the browser window and thus provides the HTML >portion as an attached file -- although I'm still not sure quite what >determines which way PM deals with a given HTML message). > >Could it be a bit of legacy code in PM dating back to it's OS9 days, ie. >pre-Safari, when IE was the default installed browser on the Mac? > >Rick > >-- >G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.3 :: PM 5.2.3 :: 3 pane mode > >Shark Attack: A Design Studio ><www.sharkattack.co.uk> > >-- >Original message: >Received from Paul Collett on 22/2/06 at 06:30 > >>Not sure about PM level settings, but setting Safari as the default web >>browser (Safari Preferences - General) does what you want for me. > >
