Hi Jerry Read http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/29196
Specifically the bit on the "web page viewer". On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 12:38 -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote: > So, another long time complaint has come to my mind, which I wanted to > let you all know about. Just in case you find yourself in teh position > to design a system to handle it. > > While browsing from a web browser, many times, I want to click on a link > and have that link open in an external application. I don't usually want > to know that this is happening, I want it to happen automatically. > WebDAV is the perfect example. When opening a link from a browser, I'd > like the browser to open the link in the associated application, like, > oh, Abiword. Abiword would be passed a url, open the file using web dav, > and then when I save, attempt to save to the same url using web dav. > > Right now this doesn't work right on our platform in most circumstances, > but does work right in some cases on Windows. First off, the browser > needs to have the ability to open the application with a Url. We can do > that now. Second, the application needs to be able to download the file > using the same set of cookies the browser was using. We can't do that > now. > > So, as you design a new VFS, please keep this in mind. It would be nice > to have a way to solve the technical problem of the browser passing the > cookies to the application. Or as another possibility, having the > browser and the application share the same connection using GVFS, and > thereby, the same cookies. > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-vfs-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list -- Alex Jones http://alex.weej.com/ _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
