[WEB4LIB] executing apps from HTML page

[pbinkley at library.ualberta.ca]

Have you looked at IE5's "HTML Applications" feature, using .hta files
instead of .html? It allows a web page to load and run applications that
have full access to the client machine's resources - hard drive, registry,
everything. There *may* be a few security concerns here. I'd be interested
in hearing about anyone's experiences with this, if anyone's tried it.
Here's some background:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/periodic/period99/HTMLApplications.htm

(With apologies if this is what you were talking about in the first place!)

Peter Binkley
Interface Development Coordinator, Campus Alberta Interface
email: pbinkley.tal at telusplanet.net
phone: (780) 492-5282 x234
fax: (780) 492-9243
post: Cameron Library 4-40
      University of Alberta
      Edmonton Alberta 
      T6G 2J8
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Price [mailto:markp at wccls.lib.or.us]
Sent: February 10, 2000 05:07 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] executing apps from HTML page


We want to make applications available from our webpacs which use IE5 as
their shell.  However, we keep getting that pesky MS "Do you want to run
from here or save to disk?" pop-up.  We don't want patrons saving things to
disk, especially when we don't allow them access to the disk in the first
place.  Does anyone have a solution that will in effect always tell Windows
that we want to run the app from here?  Thanks in advance.

Marl 

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Washington County Cooperative Library Services
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