Sivakatirswami wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:
Are there methods for each platform by which an application could
assign itself as the "helper app" for a given file type extension when
linked to within a web page?
This would let any of us make player apps for stuff, and just clicking
it would download and run it like iTunes links.
Doable?
I realize that's not nearly as convenient as the browser plugin, but
that plugin is still several months away and when it's available it
won't have an offline mode that one could build into a player (file
I/O and other "normal" options available to apps but verboten for
plugins).
Agree, an unhobbled option would be very useful.
I've also proposed in the past that this helper application/Player, just
like iTunes only comes from Apple, (Real Player from Real, Flash from
Adobe etc.) be available from an "official" RunRev site.
I can see security issues being of some concern, obviously, but if Apple
and Adobe can do it, why not RunRev in Edinburgh?
Does it require anything from them?
In Firefox one can assign a default application to run downloaded files
of a given type. IIRC such a setting is available in IE and Safari as well.
Providing instructions to the user is one way, but it would be ever so
cool to be able to have it "just work", as iTunes links do.
There must be some way, even if it requires a one-time explicit approval
from the user, to allow an app to set this up for them.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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