RevGoURL filetypes in OS 9
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Jul 19 20:10:16 EDT 2004
Sarah Reichelt wrote:
> On 15 Jul 2004, at 3:34 am, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> I am creating files that need to be opened in the user's default
>> browser. In OS X I can do this by setting the filetype to "????????"
>> which forces OS X to use the default browser. Since revGoURL uses
>> AppleScript on Macs, I suspect this filetype will cause the file to
>> open in TextEdit on OS 9. If someone here knows the correct filetype
>> to use on MacOS 9 it will save me some experimentation time (or will
>> the generic one above work?)
>
> What if you set the filetype to "????HTML" - would that be enough to
> convince it to use the default browser. Even on OS 9, if there is no
> filetype set i.e. set it to empty, would the extension ".html" not be
> enough to force it to use the default browser?
>
>>
>> I can use an IE creator code as a last resort, but I don't want to.
>
> No, I hate it when apps insist on starting something other than my
> chosen browser.
The best I've been able to come up with it to branch the code for OS X,
using the "GURLGURL" Apple event for OS 9 and earlier and "open
location" with a "????????" filetype for OS X.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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