And now I have tested it with IE6 and it works! halleluja! :)
""Max Rydahl Andersen"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Paul Kinnucan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Schewe, Jon (MN65) writes:
> > > I just tried it in IE6 and it doesn't work. Sorry to spoil you're
day.
> > >
> >
> > Maybe I spoke too fast. This bears further investigation.
> >
> > - Paul
> >
>
> ok - I have now tried this function with IE5, Opera 6, Mozilla 0.9.7 - can
> anyone check it on IE6 and others ?
> It simply just uses a empty-string for localhost insted (as in accordance
to
> http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1738.txt)
> With hope :)
>
> (defun jde-file-to-url (file)
> "Convert FILE path to a URL. If FILE is a DOS path, this
> function replaces the colon in the drive specifier with a
> vertical bar (|) because both Internet Explorer and Netscape
> accept the resulting URL whereas Netscape does not accept
> a drive specifier with a colon."
> (if (or (string-match "http:" file)
> (string-match "file:" file))
> file
> (format "file:///%s"
> ;; Check for DOS path.
> (if (string-match "[a-zA-Z]:" file)
> (substitute ?| ?: file)
> (jde-convert-cygwin-path file)))))
>
