Vincent Puglia — Tue, 19 Sep 2000 04:41:25 +0000

Hi Suzanne,

Gee I'm invisible now, sort of like Bert (?) in Soap (an old sitcom with Billy Crystal).

Vinny

Whoops! Sorry Vinny!

Suzanne — Mon, 18 Sep 2000 20:55:31 +0000

I didn't notice you had posted. You are very correct -- for anything that you don't want run on the web or through the web browser, .zip or .sit or .tar, et cetera (compressed files) are the only option.

Suzanne

Vincent Puglia — Mon, 18 Sep 2000 07:57:26 +0000

Hi Suzanne,

You're right netscape doesn't open doc files, but it will open any other file that it recognizes and has the executable for. The surest way to allow a download for crossBrowsers is still zippity-do-dah, zippity-day.....

Vinny

Netscape isn't tied into the OS

Suzanne — Mon, 18 Sep 2000 05:28:05 +0000

this is another situation where having the browser tied into the OS makes for security issues as well as convenience. It's a continuum, you see -- more convenience = less security.

But anyway, no, Netscape doesn't open the doc file. You can only open web documents with Netscape. But then again, Netscape 6 may be a different beast, and who knows, as M$ is moving toward sucking $$ from you monthly instead of when you upgrade (.Net) and it's going to be a whole new ball game.

Suzanne

Vincent Puglia — Mon, 18 Sep 2000 02:31:56 +0000

Hi,

AndyB provided the only viable solution for the internet.
Zip. Word Doc

Browser types are irrelevant, platforms are irrelevant, scripting languages are irrelevant.

Vinny

Mark Hensler — Sun, 17 Sep 2000 06:07:28 +0000

what is happening is that the borwser is loading the DOC reader. just like it would for PDF.

does it do that for netscape?

AndyB — Sat, 16 Sep 2000 21:30:39 +0000

except that a href="something.doc" etc causes the application to start and then opens the file;)

Orpheus — Sat, 16 Sep 2000 21:05:03 +0000

People People People
Your ignoring the painfully obvious

Download

oups

LukeD — Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:51:10 +0000

umm... guess we were sleeping. sorry

AndyB — Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:55:54 +0000

... um ... see what I posted further up this thread:)