Re: MIME & helper apps
Re: MIME & helper apps
- Subject: Re: MIME & helper apps
- From: Matt Mashyna <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:24:10 -0500
I discovered after a lot of searching that for IE and Mozilla all you
need to do is add a few items to the plist for document and mime
type. No ICConfig or anything needed. OS X picks it up. I'm not sure
about Safari yet because my web page refuses to load with Safari! I
need to see what I goofed up but I think once I clean up the page
Safari will probably cooperate too. Sure would be nice to have a tech
note with the key words "mime helper" in it! I found it by accident
while looking at Launch Services.
Matt
At 11:26 AM -0800 12/16/03, Larry Gerndt wrote:
> Message: 1
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:45:32 -0500
To: email@hidden
From: Matt Mashyna <email@hidden>
...snip...
> I would really like to write a little installer that would tell all
three apps about my helper. I have some code that works for OS 9 but
not for OS X.
I'm afraid you've hit a snag. The only way I know of currently, to make
Safari open your document (of custom MIME type) with your application is to
build and install a Netscape-style browser Plug-in which declares itself as
a handler for your MIME type. Safari will then pass the file to your
Plug-in, and your Plug-in can open your application with that document.
I've already submitted a bug to Apple about this, because it should not be
this hard to make Safari open a document with a helper application.
P.S. Safari also ignores internet config, which is the traditional place to
make document-helper associations, so don't bother trying that either.
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