Hi Chris, On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 17:57, Chris Puttick wrote: > Sounds like Yahoo might need reporting to the tech evangelism team > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/ > > who promote the use of open standards and standards based websites. They > offer help and assistance to sites where the problems facing visitors using > Mozilla are a result of a problem with the site's design/implementation > rather than a bug. > > Problems with Konqueror should be reported to KDE. > > As a matter of interest, it is not actually "correct" to be able to click on > a non-web link (documents etc.) and have it open in an appropriate > application. It's just something us lazy people have got used to, and is a > likely source of major security/policy breaches (of concern to us lazy IT > Managers...).
Yes, I agree. The correct procedure is to download and read the document with relevant application. But my boss has different opinion. In public library I also found visitors there using the CLICK method to open/read MSWord attachment. Stephen > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Liu > To: Chris Puttick > Cc: 'pedro noticioso '; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] " ' > Sent: 12/9/02 9:37 AM > Subject: RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Can LTSP be used in Public library > > Hi Chris, > > Thanks for your response > > Mozilla > ======= > > I already have plugger installed which came with RH8.0 CD. I performed > following experiment: > > Sent an email with a MSWord doc, a table, as attachment to following > websites respectively: > > lycom.com can be opened and read correctly with a CLICK > yahoo.com has to be saved to a folder first before reading > hotmai.com can be opened and read correctly with a CLICK > > > Konquer: > lycom.com can be opened and read correctly with a CLICK > yahoo.com can be opened and read correctly with a CLICK > hotmai.com has to be saved to a folder first before reading > > > Netscape > Completely impossible, Plugin grey out and "about:plugins" showing that > it was there. Preference -> Netscape -> Application -> app OpenOffice. > > Clicking MSWord doc started OpenOffice with a blank page displayed. I > am searching around for its HELP > > Is "technology evangelism team" the bug Report of Mozilla? Or send a > bug report to Plugger > > B.Regards > Stephen Liu > > > > On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 16:31, Chris Puttick wrote: > > Try plugger - fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html (included with all the > best > > desktop distributions...). Also note that ASP links on webmail pages > can be > > easily configured to only work with IE correctly (e.g. Outlook Web > Access). > > If this is the issue, please report it to the technology evangelism > team at > > Mozilla. > > > > Cheers > > > > Chris > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Stephen Liu > > To: pedro noticioso > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 12/9/02 7:54 AM > > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Can LTSP be used in Public library > > > > Hi Pedro, > > > > Thanks for your response. > > > > I did try several days without a solution. To read a web mail on > > Internet is not a problem. To open and read a MSWord document > attached > > to a web mail on Internet is a problem. I tried many > settings,including > > openoffice as helper app on Mozila and as app on Netscape without > > result. > > > > Netscape communicator : Clicking the attached MSWord doc started > > OpenOffice but only a blank page. > > plugin :- grep out. "about:plugins" showing that it is there. > > > > I tried to locate its HELP but it was not there. > > > > B.Regards > > Stephen Liu > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 14:33, pedro noticioso wrote: > > > > > > there are many public libraries already using ltap > > > > > > set openoffice as a helper app on your favourite web > > > browser, thats all 8) > > > > > > --- Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all folks, > > > > > > > > Can LTSP be used in Public library. > > > > > > > > Many readers visit there to browse reading web mails > > > > on Internet. One > > > > difficulty I have foreseen is to open/read MSWord > > > > documents attached to > > > > a web mail WITH A CLICK instead of downloading it > > > > first. I made an > > > > experiment with following browsers: > > > > > > > > -Mozilla > > > > -Netscape > > > > -Konqueror > > > > > > > > browseing yahoo.com, hotmail.com and lycos.com > > > > respectively on a MSWord > > > > document, with a table, as attachment to an email > > > > sent to these sites. > > > > None of the browsers can read the attached MSWord > > > > document correctly > > > > from all aforesaid websites, table disappeared. MS > > > > IE can read all of > > > > them correctly with a CLICK without problem. > > > > > > > > Kindly advise whether there is a method to solve > > > > this problem > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > Stephen Liu > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or > > > > change prefs, goto: > > > > > > > > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > > > > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on > > > irc.openprojects.net > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. 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