Yeah, that was suggested as well as launch <whattolaunch> with <program>.
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Andre Garzia <an...@andregarzia.com> wrote: > Bill, > > can't you do something akin to shell("iexplorer.exe <the url>") ? > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Bill Vlahos <bvla...@mac.com> wrote: > >> OK. I wasn't specific about all the details because it wasn't material to >> the question but since people keep trying to solve the wrong problem I will >> now say the whole story. >> >> A company I work at has this terrible time card software program. For some >> inexplicable reason this web page actually opens a popup window after you >> authenticate. This means that the user has to turn popup blocking OFF. >> >> The software has only been certified for IE on Windows but in our testing >> it actually works in Firefox and Safari too. Our users have popup blocking >> already turned OFF for IE. To make life easier for other browsers we >> recently added code to the page that tests for popup blocking. >> >> My program is a reminder application that launches a URL to whatever the >> default browser is. The URL works perfectly for IE, Firefox, and Safari >> regardless Windows or Mac. However, we discovered that if a Windows user has >> IETabs installed in Firefox the URL hangs Firefox. So we were left with the >> dilemma of either not detecting the blocking of popups which means the user >> has no idea why the screen just blinks at them or hanging the browser. >> >> I thought that if I could direct IE to open the URL for Windows, it would >> always work because all the users already have IE correctly not blocking >> popups. >> >> Fortunately the code for testing blocking of popups was fixed so it doesn't >> matter any more. >> >> However, it sounds like there isn't a good way to open a specific browser >> in Windows. >> >> Bill Vlahos >> >> On Jul 21, 2010, at 11:05 PM, Jim Ault wrote: >> >> > You aren't specific about what does not work (menus, images, layout, >> javascipt, etc) but you are entering the land of cross-browser >> compatibility. You are not specific about which IE version. >> > >> > Very few people like the idea that a particular app (such as IE) is >> launched by a program. Many would suspect phishing or other nefarious >> actions are taking place, much like their bad experiences with the annoying >> pop up window marketing tactics. >> > >> > If you use JQuery or other javascipt library, you have far less worries >> about which browser and which version. It would handle all versions. >> > >> > Another drawback to designing for IE is that every version makes >> substantial changes. >> > Solution: Your web code will instruct the user's browser to download the >> JQuery and CSS files that you specify. This means when IE 9 rolls out, all >> you need to do is update the JQuery library file on your server and you are >> covered for all versions of all browsers. >> > >> > A very complete documentation and corrective action tutorial is on >> http://quirksmode.org but be warned, it is a complex subject. >> > >> > Hope this helps, >> > >> > Jim Ault >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> use-revolution@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > > > > -- > http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution