Re: Opening url with non-default browser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Wayne, On 20 May 2004, 23:39 -0600 (20/05/200406:39 local time) Wayne King [WK] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C It would be nice if The Bat let you select a browser. MW Please no, that's an OS feature... WK I don't know of any OS that allows you to select a different WK browser for url links depending on the email client that's running. WK Certainly not Windows -- of course Windows is happy for you to WK select Internet Explorer for everything :-) That's not what I was saying... the OS lets you select the default browser (not just IE) and lets you create accounts that have different user preferences. If someone decides not to use those features why should TB! implement them internally? Okay, there are exceptions... for example, on my system Powermarks and Notetab Pro. But you'd expect that with a bookmark utility and general purpose editor that's used for coding HTML etc. - -- As ever, Martin Webster Jabber mjw | ICQ 15893823 | PGP Key ID 0xD644460D The Bat! 2.11 Beta/6 | BayesIt! 0.5.4 (Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP SDK 3.0.3 Comment: PGP Key available from ldap://europe.keys.pgp.com/:11370; iQA/AwUBQKx5MTknq5PWREYNEQKXFACfV25H57l4UTLmbU+ROwsmAMBDBqYAn25k 1D1cPAmZdg5M8fz2ve+//3Uw =w66Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Opening url with non-default browser
Julian Beach (Lists), [JB] wrote: I'll have to agree with you. Now if The Bat! had a built-in browser... JB ...we could call it Outlook! Actually, Outlook integrates IE's engine so TB! does more than Outlook in the HTML rendering dept. since unlike Outlook that uses IE, it uses its own rendering engine to view HTML mails. However, it will not fetch remote data which IE will do ... so Outlook does it too. -- -=[ Allie ]=- (List Moderator and fellow end-user) PGPKeys: http://key.ac-martin.com Running The Bat! v2.11 Beta/6 on WinXP Pro (SP1) pgpodldLBvOob.pgp Description: PGP signature Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Opening url with non-default browser
Hallo Coyle306, -- Dienstag, 18. Mai 2004, 21:26:35: Sure, I hide all the illegal stuff. I let 'em drive my car. My computer, too, is just a dumb machine that's supposed to make my life easier. I have to come in here. May I repeat: 'a dumb machine makes your life easier'! Question: how dumb is your life? *gg* Sorry - cnr ; -- liebe Grüsse Eddie Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Opening url with non-default browser
Hallo Julian, -- Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2004, 00:34:50: I'll have to agree with you. Now if The Bat! had a built-in browser... ...we could call it Outlook! I would call it 'LookOut'! -- liebe Grüsse Eddie Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Opening url with non-default browser
Hi Martin, Tuesday, May 18, 2004, 12:48:36 PM, you wrote: C It would be nice if The Bat let you select a browser. MW Please no, that's an OS feature... I don't know of any OS that allows you to select a different browser for url links depending on the email client that's running. Certainly not Windows -- of course Windows is happy for you to select Internet Explorer for everything :-) -- Wayne Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Opening url with non-default browser
It would be nice if The Bat let you select a browser. Exactly my opinion. Pegasus has this function, but I haven't found it in any other e-mail client I've tried. -- Britt Henrikson Mit schönen Grüßen von Yahoo! Mail. Mit dem Yahoo! Messenger können Sie Freunde noch schneller erreichen! Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Opening url with non-default browser
Hello Coyle306, On Mon, 17 May 2004 20:25:29 -0400 GMT (18/05/2004, 07:25 +0700 GMT), Coyle306 wrote: C It would be nice if The Bat let you select a browser. A nice idea. I'd second a wish. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. When you breath, you inspire. When you do not breath, you expire. Message reply created with The Bat! 2.10.01 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 256MB RAM Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Opening url with non-default browser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Coyle306, On 18 May 2004, 20:25 -0400 (18/05/200401:25 local time) Coyle306 [C] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AJ I am pretty sure when I changed my default browser (from IE to Firefox) AJ my wife complained the following day that I had changed something AJ again. Indeed she was getting Firefox launched. C That was the point of my original message. I don't want to change the C default browser or e-mail client on my system. I don't want to C create a different account or identity or whatever in XP. You mean you let other people on your desktop! You let the kids (or the wife) have administrator rights? ! Yuck! :-) C It would be nice if The Bat let you select a browser. Please no, that's an OS feature... - -- As ever, Martin Webster Jabber mjw | ICQ 15893823 | PGP Key ID 0xD644460D The Bat! 2.10.03 | BayesIt! 0.5.4 (Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP SDK 3.0.3 Comment: PGP Key available from ldap://europe.keys.pgp.com/:11370; iQA/AwUBQKpaiTknq5PWREYNEQLF0QCgx9zTeJG0jeYEFyXGlBHnYxPGR08AnijO NvXkdmEediOSwWSMpdnvAt2q =Y5BO -END PGP SIGNATURE- Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Opening url with non-default browser
AJ I am pretty sure when I changed my default browser (from IE to Firefox) AJ my wife complained the following day that I had changed something AJ again. Indeed she was getting Firefox launched. C That was the point of my original message. I don't want to change the C default browser or e-mail client on my system. I don't want to C create a different account or identity or whatever in XP. MW You mean you let other people on your desktop! You let the kids (or the MW wife) have administrator rights? ! Yuck! :-) Sure, I hide all the illegal stuff. I let 'em drive my car. My computer, too, is just a dumb machine that's supposed to make my life easier. C It would be nice if The Bat let you select a browser. MW Please no, that's an OS feature... Yeah, right. That's why I've got a dozen programs that let me select outside editors, file viewers, e-mail programs, sound files, blah, blah, blah. Hey Bat authors, how about letting us choose a browser? -- Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Opening url with non-default browser
Martin Webster @ 2004-May-18 2:48:36 PM Opening url with non-default browser mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It would be nice if The Bat let you select a browser. Please no, that's an OS feature... I'll have to agree with you. Now if The Bat! had a built-in browser... -- Chris - Nun mi Esperanton lernas. Quoting when replying to this message is good for your karma. Using The Bat! v2.10.03 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Today's Oxymoron: Synthetic natural gas pgpuexbsk1WPM.pgp Description: PGP signature Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Opening url with non-default browser
Coyle306 @ 2004-May-18 3:26:35 PM Opening url with non-default browser mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It would be nice if The Bat let you select a browser. Please no, that's an OS feature... Yeah, right. That's why I've got a dozen programs that let me select outside editors, file viewers, e-mail programs, sound files, blah, blah, blah. Those are done by file extension. We're talking about a protocol. However, if you give me a couple days (until probably Saturday) I can polish my browser selector program and send it to anyone who wants it. -- Chris - Nun mi Esperanton lernas. Quoting when replying to this message is good for your karma. Using The Bat! v2.10.03 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Today's Oxymoron: Found missing pgpym49G6wncB.pgp Description: PGP signature Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Opening url with non-default browser
On Tuesday, May 18, 2004, 10:44:06 PM, Chris wrote: I'll have to agree with you. Now if The Bat! had a built-in browser... ...we could call it Outlook! Julian -- Using The Bat! v2.10.03 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Opening url with non-default browser
Monday, May 17, 2004, 10:19:09 AM, Martin wrote: MW You forgot to mention the version of Windows you use... C Windows XP, Home Edition MW In that case, you can create your own profile and change the default MW applications for mail and Web browsing. Right click on the Start button MW and select Properties. Then select the Start Menu tab and click on MW Customize. Now select your preferred applications for Web and mail (Show MW on Start menu). I am pretty sure when I changed my default browser (from IE to Firefox) my wife complained the following day that I had changed something again. Indeed she was getting Firefox launched. From this, it would seem it is a global setting (much like screen resolution...gr.) This was fairly recently and I always have the latest patches on. -- Cheers, Allister Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Opening url with non-default browser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Allister, On 17 May 2004, 21:42 +1200 (10:42 local time) Allister Jenks [AJ] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MW In that case, you can create your own profile and change the default MW applications for mail and Web browsing. Right click on the Start button MW and select Properties. Then select the Start Menu tab and click on MW Customize. Now select your preferred applications for Web and mail (Show MW on Start menu). AJ I am pretty sure when I changed my default browser (from IE to Firefox) AJ my wife complained the following day that I had changed something AJ again. Indeed she was getting Firefox launched. AJ From this, it would seem it is a global setting (much like screen AJ resolution...gr.) AJ This was fairly recently and I always have the latest patches on. Maybe this is a limitation of XP Home? With XP Pro you can create an account and set default programs for e-mail, Web browsing, media player, IM, and Java. The settings are applied to the current account and don't affect other users. - -- As ever, Martin Webster Jabber mjw | ICQ 15893823 | PGP Key ID 0xD644460D The Bat! 2.10.03 | BayesIt! 0.5.4 (Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP SDK 3.0.3 Comment: PGP Key available from ldap://europe.keys.pgp.com/:11370; iQA/AwUBQKioDzknq5PWREYNEQL46QCg3TjvqjkWkp/uI3rhP6yWIdFWhXsAn0m5 qPCO8TGC3TN1qO9pxFy/fAcI =7JBi -END PGP SIGNATURE- Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Opening url with non-default browser
AJ I am pretty sure when I changed my default browser (from IE to Firefox) AJ my wife complained the following day that I had changed something AJ again. Indeed she was getting Firefox launched. That was the point of my original message. I don't want to change the default browser or e-mail client on my system. I don't want to create a different account or identity or whatever in XP. It would be nice if The Bat let you select a browser. -- Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Opening url with non-default browser
I share my home computer with the wife and kids. They use Internet Explorer and Outbreak Express, the system defaults. I use Opera and The Bat. Changing the defaults is not an option. When I click on a url in the body of a Bat message, I want to open it in Opera, the non-default browser. If there's a way of setting this, I can't find it. An option to designate a specific browser would be nice. -- Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Opening url with non-default browser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Coyle306, On 16 May 2004, 08:48 -0400 (13:48 local time) Coyle306 [C] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C I share my home computer with the wife and kids. They use Internet C Explorer and Outbreak Express, the system defaults. I use Opera and C The Bat. Changing the defaults is not an option. C When I click on a url in the body of a Bat message, I want to open it C in Opera, the non-default browser. If there's a way of setting this, I C can't find it. An option to designate a specific browser would be C nice. You forgot to mention the version of Windows you use... - -- As ever, Martin Webster Jabber mjw | ICQ 15893823 | PGP Key ID 0xD644460D The Bat! 2.10.03 | BayesIt! 0.5.4 (Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP SDK 3.0.3 Comment: PGP Key available from ldap://europe.keys.pgp.com/:11370; iQA/AwUBQKeCezknq5PWREYNEQLRTgCePi6fwdsqLfDrqeSQou4ium5Z9JQAnjox gqDokb4X92jJbq9PLhbyj5wb =7lXe -END PGP SIGNATURE- Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Opening url with non-default browser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Coyle306, On 16 May 2004, 17:50 -0400 (22:50 local time) Coyle306 [C] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C When I click on a url in the body of a Bat message, I want to open it C in Opera, the non-default browser. If there's a way of setting this, I C can't find it. An option to designate a specific browser would be C nice. MW You forgot to mention the version of Windows you use... C Windows XP, Home Edition In that case, you can create your own profile and change the default applications for mail and Web browsing. Right click on the Start button and select Properties. Then select the Start Menu tab and click on Customize. Now select your preferred applications for Web and mail (Show on Start menu). - -- As ever, Martin Webster Jabber mjw | ICQ 15893823 | PGP Key ID 0xD644460D The Bat! 2.10.03 | BayesIt! 0.5.4 (Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP SDK 3.0.3 Comment: PGP Key available from ldap://europe.keys.pgp.com/:11370; iQA/AwUBQKfo4zknq5PWREYNEQLnwACgqrIgWe8Obz3QXQnAKaWXN3P1KCsAn3NP eJGmFcku4kz9eDtP+VvTLQDZ =aaj8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Opening url with non-default browser
On Sun, 16 May 2004 22:19:09 GMT, Martin Webster wrote: In that case, you can create your own profile and change the default applications for mail and Web browsing. Right click on the Start button and select Properties. Then select the Start Menu tab and click on Customize. Now select your preferred applications for Web and mail (Show on Start menu). To change or create identities, though, you first have to go to Control Panel/User Accounts. (At least, that's how it works in XP Pro, and I think also in XP Home.) -- JN Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
