Re: file protocol support

i missed the list reply.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: file protocol support
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:54:49 -0300
From: Alejandro Vartabedian <[email protected]>
Organization: webservices
To: Doug Turner <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
<[email protected]>

hi Doug,

Doug Turner wrote:
> <snip>
> 
>> the point:
>>     i've been testing some xul stuff on minimo, hoping xulrunner to be 
>> pocketized
>> (wince by wide device support) one day (Dough, is it planned or out of 
>> your
>> initiative scope?).
> 
> Yes.  Some day.  However, it isn't an immediate goal of mine.  The XUL 
> runner stuff isnt' that far away from working on WINCE.  I wouldn't be 
> surprized if it just did work.

i think this too...

> 
> Have you tried building it for windows ce?

sorry, but i only have a winbox in a vm to run mssql server, ie and some ppc
software tools like ASync.
i left vb and the m$ stuff (as much as possible) away some years ago, i can't
help with this by now, sorry.

> 
>>     well, some test's i've done trying to access local 
>> (file:///page.html) html
>> files trough addressbar don't work, i saw minimo does not popup an error
>> message, only do nothing like in other error situations.
>>
>>     my question is if the file:// protocol is supported.
>>
>>     i'll be deploying/researching a new pocket proyect in next 
>> month's, trying to
>> be minimo centric if possible, so many things will happen and reported.
>>
>>     good luck.
> 
> 
> Yes, the file:// url handling is broken.  A workaround is to just use:
> 
> resource://gre/res/page.html
> 
> and put page.html in:
> 
> <bin> / res /
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> Doug Turner


sure, i missed to ask for this in the post, i used this in firefox before.

it works well with the packaged resource://gre/res/arrow.gif file.

thanks, and good luck.