On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Dave Newton <newton.d...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Jim Kiley wrote: > >> Just for fun I just tried it -- made a trivial HTML file, named it >> "foo.doc," and double-clicked, and it did open in Word. Properly >> formatted >> and so on too. Word is happy to open HTML files. It loves you and it >> wants >> you to be happy. >> > > On *your* machine, perhaps. On all my Windows machines an HTML file will, > by default, open in Firefox, or on a work machine I have no control over, > IE. That surprises me, since I had always assumed that Windows based the application of choice on the file extension. I wonder what other guidance is being used. Content-type? > This is reasonable behavior: it's a web page, not a word processor > document. Unless you are controlling deployment, you don't have control over > what a user's machine will open an HTML file in on a double-click. This I totally agree with. -- Jim Kiley Senior Technical Consultant | Summa [p] 412.258.3346 http://www.summa-tech.com
