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Re: Re (3): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.



On 06/06/11 at 12:27pm, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
> From:	William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com>
> Date:	Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:21:08 -0400
> > Since the file protocol method already specifies path-based navigation, what is the benefit?
> 
> There is a menu of frequently used files and links on my Web server.  
> Update that one text.  Access it from any machine at any location.

You can already accomplish this by having the file use file:// URIs

> > Also, as another poster mentioned, the file URI syntax is not firefox-specific. You'd have to have it changed at a higher level such as the W3C
> 
> For this I do not want to change any protocol.  Merely to have Iceweasel 
> accept the URI.  

URI handling is a protocol. You can't have file:// do one thing in firefox and another in Opera, for example.

-- 
Liam

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