Using Firefox, but I want a link to open in Internet Explorer |
Using Firefox, but I want a link to open in Internet Explorer |
Styler001 |
Jun 29 2019, 12:27 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 14-January 07 Member No.: 1,573 |
I'm really not sure about posting this here since this is geared more towards website programming, but I posted on another HTML help forum a week ago and all I'm hearing there are crickets.
If this should be removed from here, I'll understand. Anyway, here's what I posted in the other forum... QUOTE My preferred choice of browser at work is Firefox. This works for almost all websites or apps I need to use/visit. However, there are a few apps we use that won't work on Firefox that we have to use Internet Explorer to open. I made myself an HTML menu for the sites I use most often, but, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to get this one line of code to work. That's not the real site I want to access with Internet Explorer since the site I need is my company's internal site and I shouldn't show that here. I'll just use Google as an example, hoping the process would be the same for my company's site. CODE <td><a href="file:"/c:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe " http://www.google.com" target="_blank">Google</a></td> I'm pretty sure part of the problem is the quotes within the quotes. But I'm sure there's probably more to the problem than that. I've tried using the single quote and the &_quot; (without the _ but it won't let me type that here without displaying quotation marks) options, but couldn't get those to work either. Again, I know this may not belong on this forum, but if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it. |
Christian J |
Jul 1 2019, 06:34 AM
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They could at least become annoyed. Hopefully the browser is not allowed to run .hta files from the Internet zone, possibly not from the intranet either. If the company has blocked browser addons maybe they've blocket HTA as well.
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pandy |
Jul 1 2019, 09:15 AM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,716 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
IIRC HTA can be run from the web, but only in IE. As it were, anyway.
HTA doesn't really run in IE locally not the normal way anyway. IE's rendering engine is used though. I don't find the MS page that actually explained it so I understood it back then, but here's what Wikipedia says. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application#Execution I actually use HTA quite a lot, even if I haven't tried to learn anything more about it in decade. I use it for modeless info windows that I can run from my text editor. I have list of things I may need to look up, say reserved words in JS. Previously I used my text editor's own info windows which are modal, so I had to click them away to be able to continue typing. The HTAs can stay open as long as I need them, be minimizes and so on. I just use one of the old ones as a template when I want to create a new one. I can share a cooking related one (in Swedish). Just save it as whatever.hta and double click the icon. The icon on the window's status bar won't work unless you create your own. CODE <html> <head> <title>Mått</title> <HTA:APPLICATION applicationName = "Socker" caption = "yes" borderStyle = "static" innerBorder = "yes" icon = "socker.ico" </HTA:APPLICATION> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body { margin: 0; padding: .2em .3em 0; background: #f8f8f8; color: #555; font: 85% Verdana, sans-serif } h3 { font-size: 105%; margin: 0; margin-top: .2em; margin-bottom: -.2em } h2 { font-size: 115%; margin: 0; margin-top: .5em } ul { margin: 0 } --> </style> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- function resizeIt() { window.resizeTo(200,350); } onload = resizeIt; //--> </script> </head> <body> <h2>Socker</h2> <h3>Strösocker</h3> <ul> <li>1 dl = ca 90 g</li> <li>1 msk = 15 g</li> <li>1 tsk = 5 g</li> </ul> <h3>Fruktsocker</h3> <ul> <li>1 dl = ca 70 g</li> <li>1 msk = ca 12 g</li> <li>1 tsk = ca 4 g</li> </ul> <h3>Sirap</h3> <ul> <li>1 dl = 140 g</li> <li>1 msk = 20 g</li> <li>1 tsk = 7 g</li> </ul> <h2>Mjöl</h2> <h3>Vetemjöl</h3> <ul> <li>1 dl = 60 g</li> <li>1 msk = 9 g</li> </ul> </body> </html> |
Christian J |
Jul 1 2019, 12:24 PM
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. Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 9,630 Joined: 10-August 06 Member No.: 7 |
IIRC HTA can be run from the web, but only in IE. As it were, anyway. What about this Firefox support you mentioned then? QUOTE HTA doesn't really run in IE locally not the normal way anyway. IE's rendering engine is used though. I don't find the MS page that actually explained it so I understood it back then, but here's what Wikipedia says. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application#Execution Oh, so you can't run it by clicking a link (not a file!) or pasting a URL into the browser's address bar? That's a relief. QUOTE I can share a cooking related one (in Swedish). Just save it as whatever.hta and double click the icon. But I just changed the file association to a text editor, just in case. |
pandy |
Jul 2 2019, 09:34 AM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,716 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
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Styler001 |
Jul 2 2019, 09:45 PM
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pandy |
Jul 3 2019, 07:38 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,716 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
But if it's just a few links that should be opened in IE they will stand out as different. If all links are blue except these ones that are, say, red and bold, you'll know they are special. You don't need to remember what color they are, only that they are different.
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