Set browser "helper" app

[Alex Rice]

On Feb 13, 2004, at 4:59 PM, Devin Asay wrote:

> Does anyone know how to set the most commonly-used browsers in OS X to 
> automatically launch a rev stack (with Rev or some compiled Rev 
> launcher app) when it is clicked on in a web page? I want to be able 
> to have a user click on a stack link in my web page and have it 
> launch, instead of merely download or even try to show the contents in 
> the web page. Like happens when you click on a pdf link.

Safari.app doesn't seem to have helper apps in the usual browser sense. 
I think it relies on Launch Services (like Finder) to decide how to 
"open" a file.

FWIW, in my experience, the ".rev" filetype is almost impossible to get 
configured to launch Revolution consistently on OS X. Because The 
runrev Distribution builder has been putting ".rev" as the document 
type for *everyone's* standalone applications. Monte says that's 
getting fixed in the next release of Runrev. But there will still be 
lots of standalone apps out there with ".rev" as their document type.

If you are trying to get a file to download instead of being displayed 
in the browser, that has been covered on this list many times so check 
the archives :-)

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Alex Rice | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com