Re: how to open links etc

--- On Sun, 9/18/11, Benjamin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Benjamin Johnson <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Dillo-dev] how to open links etc
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Sunday, September 18, 2011, 10:05 AM
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:48:37 -0400,
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> >   Can we have 3 options?
> > 1) The "out-of-the-box" default is to ask what to do
> > 2) Save to disk
> > 3) Specify a helper application.  Allow to
> specify parameters as required.
> 
> That's exactly what I was thinking.  Good; that
> probably means neither of us is crazy.  (Or else we're
> *both* crazy, but at least neither of us is crazy alone!)
> 
> >   And for number 3; puhleeeese don't
> "pull a Firefox" by de-referencing
> > symlinks.  For instance...
> > 
> > $ ll /usr/bin/abiword
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Sep  3 02:53
> /usr/bin/abiword -> abiword-2.8
> > 
> >   When you tell Firefox to use abiword
> for *.doc files, it de-references
> > the symlink and uses /usr/bin/abiword-2.8.  So a
> few weeks from now, an
> > update upgrades me to abiword-2.9 and Firefox whines
> about not being
> > able to find /usr/bin/abiword-2.8 when I click on a
> link to a *.doc
> > file.  See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176486
> > Warning, some strong language from annoyed
> users.  See especially
> > comments 46, 47, and 48.
> 
> What's the point of dereferencing symlinks, anyway? 
> Symlinks in /usr/bin are usually there for a reason, and
> dereferencing them would actually take *more* code than
> not.
> 
> I'm tempted to fire up my Unix machine and just start
> coding now... and yes, I do keep an OpenBSD install and
> unpatched mainline sources handy, in case anyone thinks I
> only code for the one platform :-)

Great!! Let me encourage you, Benjamin!! This will, of course, be a great help!

Best wishes.
T