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Originally posted by Jam
I know its possible... purge uses browser bob and javascript to launch the game
... so the link works when the file is hosted localy... thats fine ill keep it local.. however the link just goes to download it, there is some exec command or something but I dont know how to make it work...
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*points up there* Firefox is a webbrowser, not a application launcher. That's what start bars, tool bars, desktops, and such are for really.
<I>If</I> there is some javascript to launch <I>local</I> apps... well, there's google.
I had a quick look but haven't found anything worthwhile. Java generally is very security geared, so I doubt there is something, but never know. :P
About 'run automatically', it looks to me firefox may not have that either, it doesn't appear to have any sort of 'zone' setup either, which probably makes it a 'good thing' that you can't click on an exe file and run them straight away. You might be able to set up your MIME types to get around that however. (agian, not -really- a good idea).
As bad of a language it is, maybe you should have a look at coding something up in VB (6/.NET). It should be reasonably simple to get both functionality out of a small VB 'launcher' app (that is, launch webpages & run local applications), and you have possibly more control over how you present it, depending on how you look at it.
David M