Helper apps (was Re: EduTainment Titles)

[Richmond Mathewson]

Not much joy with Safari, I'm afraid:

http://8help.osu.edu/1600.html  paraphrasing this: the assignment of 
helper apps is done within the Finder,
                                                                  (i.e. 
the ones for when you double-click on a doc in the Finder) and Safari
                                                                 just 
uses those.  I wonder what it does in Windows?

Internet Explorer has a 'Helper Applications' option in it preferences 
department.

Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Sivakatirswami wrote:
>
>> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>> 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).
>>>  
>> Agree, an unhobbled option would be very useful.
>>
>> I've also proposed in the past that this helper application/Player, 
>> just like iTunes only comes from Apple, (Real Player from Real, Flash 
>> from Adobe etc.) be available from an "official" RunRev site.
>>
>> I can see security issues being of some concern, obviously, but if 
>> Apple and Adobe can do it, why not RunRev in Edinburgh?
>
> Does it require anything from them?
>
> In Firefox one can assign a default application to run downloaded 
> files of a given type.  IIRC such a setting is available in IE and 
> Safari as well.
>
> Providing instructions to the user is one way, but it would be ever so 
> cool to be able to have it "just work", as iTunes links do.
>
> There must be some way, even if it requires a one-time explicit 
> approval from the user, to allow an app to set this up for them.
>
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World
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