RE: Does Launch Services honor IC preferred Browser? No, not real ly.
RE: Does Launch Services honor IC preferred Browser? No, not real ly.
- Subject: RE: Does Launch Services honor IC preferred Browser? No, not real ly.
- From: Joe Kelly <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:31:41 -0800
I'd say the difference is merely philosophical, especially on an OS that
prefers to reference file objects with URLs. Also, LaunchServices allows you
to specify the role of the helper application -- is it a viewer or an
editor?
Seems to me that IC's preferred browser setting should be a subset of the
file type <--> application assocation map. Then you'd have to somehow push
the whole "role" concept to the UI level. Nevermind.
joe
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I think we're confusing what the default browser setting
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does. When you
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specify the default browser, you are associating a browser
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with the _HTTP
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protocol_. So when an application calls 'ICLaunchURL' and
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specifies an
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"http://"; url, the browser selected as the default will be launched.
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The association for a .html document is separate and distinct from the
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browser setting. In this case, you are specifying the application
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associated with the ".html" file extension. Changing the
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default browser
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should not alter the behavior for opening .html files. (In
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my case, I've
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selected BBEdit as my preferred application for .html files... while
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Explorer is my preferred browser).
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