revGoURL on 10.2.3

[Richard Gaskin]

Scott Rossi wrote:

> On 1/5/04 2:19 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> I have not yet
>>>> come up with a robust solution for launching a local file in the user's
>>>> default browser in Panther. :(
>>> 
>>> I know that GURL is broken in Panther, but does the following fail as well?
>>> 
>>> on mouseUp
>>> answer file "Locate HTML:"
>>> if it is empty then exit mouseUp
>>> put it into tPath
>>> put \
>>> "tell application" && quote & "Finder" & quote & cr &\
>>> "open location" && quote & "file://" & tPath & quote & cr &\
>>> "end tell" into S
>>> do S as AppleScript
>>> end mouseUp
>> 
>> Yes, but not in the default browser if the local file has a creator code for
>> another app assigned to it.
> 
> OK, but neither would double clicking the file in the situation you
> describe, so it's not exactly a departure in behavior.

Yes, "open location" works like the Finder, but the older GURLGURL method
launched the document in the user's default browser.

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 Richard Gaskin 
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