Launch Local HTML File
Shari
gypsyware at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 23 08:43:01 EDT 2002
>Recently, Richard Gaskin lamented the difficulty of launching a local HTML
>file on Mac OSX in the user's default browser (Richard and I have often
>commiserated about needlessly complicated issues such as this). I thought
>there should be some way to handle this and after much trial and error
>(until four in the morning, like an idiot) I arrived at an AppleScript that
>seems to do the job.
>
> http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/Local_Launcher.hqx
>
>It's not pretty -- it uses the brute force method of writing a "launcher"
>file to the temp directory -- but it seems to work reliably and could be
>adapted to work from within MetaCard. A few comments are contained in the
>script file.
>
>Regards,
>
>Scott Rossi
Don't suppose anyone knows a way to do it on Windows?
Shari C
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