I was wondering the same thing just the other day. I couldn't figure out how to change the default app that opens ftp links. When I click on an ftp link, it opens IE (yuck!), and I wanted to switch it to Safari or Finder or whatever is appropriate nowadays.
-- Dan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- Original message ---- Christopher Plummer, 2:19 PM, 11/7/03: >Panther "Internet" System Preferences: >Web preferences (such as Default Web Browser) are now buried in Safari >Preferences. "Default Mail Application" is buried in Apple's Mail app >Preferences. > >What I found particularly annoying was that Mail app forced me to >configure it with (more or less) valid configuration information before >it would let me look at its Preferences to make sure that PowerMail was >still the default. (Which it was.) > >For as long as I recall part of what Apple meant to computing was "ease >of use" and "choice". I see a trend now toward doing things not because >they're easy, or intuitive, or even because they make sense, but either >because "that's what Windows users are used to" or because "it's our OS >and our Apps and we'll do as we please". > >Does that mean that every mail client is going to have to include an >option in it's own Prefs to make itself the Default Mail App? Is Apple >going to allow 3rd party apps to do that? Or will we all be coerced into >setting up Mail just so we can have the choice not to use it? I'm trying >to get a little reality check here, because I think they've stepped over >the line on this one. Maybe I'm wrong. It seems like we've gone back >about 10 years. Back before "Internet Config" put all the Internet >configuration in one place, at the System level, outside of applications. >Are these system level Preferences available anywhere else, or has the OS >really been this Microsoftized? > >- Chris Plummer > >=================================================== >check the UNPREDICTABLE archive - <http://www.unpredictablemac.com> >=================================================== > >
