EduTainment Titles

[Richard Gaskin]

Sivakatirswami wrote:

> With the advent of Rev Stacks running inside a browser, there is 
> interest here in our shop with the idea of doing educational stackware.
> 
> The perception that such titles by CD would probably never do well 
> compared to
> 
> a) distributing printed materials
> b) PDF's of the same
> c) Some Browser app

This raises a question that I haven't seen a simple answer to:

Are there methods for each platform by which an application could assign 
itself as the "helper app" for a given file type extension when linked 
to within a web page?

This would let any of us make player apps for stuff, and just clicking 
it would download and run it like iTunes links.

Doable?

I realize that's not nearly as convenient as the browser plugin, but 
that plugin is still several months away and when it's available it 
won't have an offline mode that one could build into a player (file I/O 
and other "normal" options available to apps but verboten for plugins).

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  Richard Gaskin
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