Launching a local file in the default browser

[Brian Yennie]

tell application "Finder"
    open location "http://www.apple.com"
end tell

... "do" as AppleScript of course

> Yep, the same ol' question:  how do I launch a local file in the 
> default
> browser on Mac OS X?
>
> And for future reference:  Where is the definitive answer archived?