Launch url SOLUTION

[Shari]

>Glad you at least found a workaround, but did you ever find out why 
>it was needed?
>
>--
>  Richard Gaskin

Not a clue.  In some of the old posts people had mentioned versions 
of browsers that were not as compliant, not sure how they explained 
it but I'll try...

When you launch the browser, which is Internet Explorer, the top of 
the browser window says something like "Internet Explorer provided by 
Compaq" or something to that effect.  In other words, sort of like 
Compaq added their branding to it.  Somewhere in the old posts I got 
the impression that when you have a weird version like this, 
sometimes they don't maintain the same compliancy to standard 
protocols.  So I wondered if that could be the case.

Rev/MC would actually launch the browser, but the window would come 
up empty.  It would not take you to the URL.

I tried it in both Rev and MC straight from the message box, without 
anything to complicate it, and both did the same thing.  So my best 
guess is that the non-standard browser is cranky.  I tried a boatload 
of different URL handlers, from launch, to shell, and others, but 
Scott's was the only one that could bully it's way thru.

One thing I've heard over and over thru the years, if you see it 
happen (the anomaly) or if even just one or two people email you with 
it, you can bet your bottom dollars that there are a lot more people 
who will encounter it.  Never assume that it's limited to one or two 
people or just you.  The silent majority will likely be off to 
somebody else's software and never bother to tell you why.

Shari
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