[BayWarp] Fwd: [Fwd: Re: [VOICENWS] Event: Event: BayWarp meeting Tuesday, January 26]

[Neil Waldhauer]

** Forwarding message from madodel <madodel at ptdprolog.net> on Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:59:47 -0500

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Mark

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:42:53 +0100 VOICE News Service wrote:
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>Firefox oddities.  

If there will be anything written, could you put it on line, please. Firefox to me seems all 
oddity so I use Seamonkey, but I think Firefox is probably the direction things are going.

Hi Craig,

We don't really keep minutes of the BayWarp meetings, so I thought I'd drop you a note about what we said.

It started with a problem using Firefox and PMMail together. Let's say you had a web page with a mailto: link. Firefox is supposed to look up  what to do in a file called "mimeTypes.rdf". That works, but if you tell Firefox to use PMMail.exe, it doesn't work. PMMail launches and gives an error message.

It turns out that in mimeTypes.rdf, you don't want to use PMMail, but rather set useSystemDefault="true". Now mimeTypes.rdf is an XML file, and editing it by hand wasn't what the Firefox developers had in mind. Instead, they planned for you to go to Options, and open the Applications Tab.

Unfortunately, the applications tab is blank on recent OS/2 Firefox 3.5x builds. We contacted the Firefox developers, and there is a fix that's been posted in Netlabs incomming. That fix, that replaces XUL.dll, allows Firefox to display all the mime types in mimeTypes.rdf.

Unfortunately, even with the fix, use system default is not an option. So for now, PMMail users may have to edit mimeTypes.rdf by hand to get the mailto: link to work.

Our Seamonkey user was out sick, so I can't really comment about the usefulness of this information to Seamonkey users.

best regards,
Neil
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