Re: opening abiword from an html link

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 08:39:52 EDT

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    This may be of interest:
    Abiword Plugin for mozilla
    http://abimoz.mozdev.org

    At the moment it only works for a very particular version of RedHat Linux
    and Mozilla, and it does not have a nice XPI (mozilla Cross platform
    installer or anything like that) but with a little promotion people might
    be encourage to get it to work other versions of linux and maybe other
    operation systems too.

    The Abiword Plugin for Mozilla is as a result of work done by Oeone.
    http://oeone.com/

    Sincerely
    Alan Horkan

    On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Eric Thomas wrote:

    > Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:48:38 +0700
    > From: Eric Thomas <info@idalot.com>
    > To: F J Franklin <F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk>
    > Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
    > Subject: Re: opening abiword from an html link
    >
    > That was exactly the ticket!!
    >
    > Thanks for the help Frank!
    >
    > Eric
    >
    > At 09:00 AM 8/9/2002 +0100, F J Franklin wrote:
    > >On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Eric Thomas wrote:
    > > > I'm having a bit of a problem with opening an abiword document from a web
    > > > link. I've written a script to automatically create abiword documents
    > > from
    > > > a template file with data supplied from a database. The script then
    > > writes
    > > > an HTML page with a link to the document. On clicking the link, however,
    > > > the browser just displays the source as an XML file.
    > >
    > >I think there are two steps to this:
    > >
    > >1. configure your web-server to serve .abw files with MIME info:
    > > application/x-abiword (I think)
    > >
    > >2. instruct users to associate MIME-type "application/x-abiword" with
    > > AbiWord in MSIE's "Preferences"->"Receiving Files"->"File Helpers"
    > > section.
    > >
    > >(I haven't tried this myself, though.)
    > >
    > >Otherwise, I'm not sure. There may be a way to use J[ava]Script to prompt
    > >IE to open a link in a given application.
    > >
    > >Regards, Frank
    > >
    > >Francis James Franklin
    > >F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
    > >
    > >"No, she really likes me. She told me I look like Britney Spears, and why
    > >would you say that to somebody you don't like?"
    > > --- Elle Woods
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Eric
    >
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