How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

[Mike Bonner]

Yeah, that was suggested as well as launch <whattolaunch> with <program>.

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:
> Bill,
>
> can't you do something akin to shell("iexplorer.exe <the url>") ?
>
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Bill Vlahos <bvlahos at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> OK. I wasn't specific about all the details because it wasn't material to
>> the question but since people keep trying to solve the wrong problem I will
>> now say the whole story.
>>
>> A company I work at has this terrible time card software program. For some
>> inexplicable reason this web page actually opens a popup window after you
>> authenticate. This means that the user has to turn popup blocking OFF.
>>
>> The software has only been certified for IE on Windows but in our testing
>> it actually works in Firefox and Safari too. Our users have popup blocking
>> already turned OFF for IE. To make life easier for other browsers we
>> recently added code to the page that tests for popup blocking.
>>
>> My program is a reminder application that launches a URL to whatever the
>> default browser is. The URL works perfectly for IE, Firefox, and Safari
>> regardless Windows or Mac. However, we discovered that if a Windows user has
>> IETabs installed in Firefox the URL hangs Firefox. So we were left with the
>> dilemma of either not detecting the blocking of popups which means the user
>> has no idea why the screen just blinks at them or hanging the browser.
>>
>> I thought that if I could direct IE to open the URL for Windows, it would
>> always work because all the users already have IE correctly not blocking
>> popups.
>>
>> Fortunately the code for testing blocking of popups was fixed so it doesn't
>> matter any more.
>>
>> However, it sounds like there isn't a good way to open a specific browser
>> in Windows.
>>
>> Bill Vlahos
>>
>> On Jul 21, 2010, at 11:05 PM, Jim Ault wrote:
>>
>> > You aren't specific about what does not work (menus, images, layout,
>> javascipt, etc) but you are entering the land of cross-browser
>> compatibility.  You are not specific about which IE version.
>> >
>> > Very few people like the idea that a particular app (such as IE) is
>> launched by a program.  Many would suspect phishing or other nefarious
>> actions are taking place, much like their bad experiences with the annoying
>> pop up window marketing tactics.
>> >
>> > If you use JQuery or other javascipt library, you have far less worries
>> about which browser and which version.  It would handle all versions.
>> >
>> > Another drawback to designing for IE is that every version makes
>> substantial changes.
>> > Solution:  Your web code will instruct the user's browser to download the
>> JQuery and CSS files that you specify.  This means when IE 9 rolls out, all
>> you need to do is update the JQuery library file on your server and you are
>> covered for all versions of all browsers.
>> >
>> > A very complete documentation and corrective action tutorial is on
>> http://quirksmode.org but be warned, it is a complex subject.
>> >
>> > Hope this helps,
>> >
>> > Jim Ault
>>
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