Netscape vs IE

[Anonymous]

I too prefer NS as my browser. There is a site I frequent where I can link to a DWF file using NS 6. My browser will pop a window asking me what I want to do with it. I open AEV through my browser and everything works as expected. I am trying to utilize the same function for my own web site. However, when I link to the DWF file I create, I do not get the pop up window asking me what I want to do with the file but rather the file opens as raw code. I just downloaded AEV May 22 and am hoping that this version supports both IE and NS as I can view one DWF file as expected. Does the NEW version support NS? Is there code I need to add to my HTML the tell a NS browser to load an IE plugin prior to opening the DWF file? Thanks for any info on this topic.

Tim

[Anonymous]

This is just a guess. AEV is supplied as an ActiveX
Control and EXE. It works with Internet Explorer. There is no Netscape Plug-in.
It is possible to configure Netscape Navigator so that it will invoke a helper
application. I believe it is possible to define AEV as the helper application
for DWF files. The server that you frequent has the MIME type defined for
DWF (which is drawing/x-dwf) which is why it works for you. When you go to your
own server the MIME type is not defined, so instead you see a stream of what
looks like mangled text that is actually the contents of the DWF file. So if you
want to test my theory, have your IT administrator define the MIME type for DWF
on the server. How that is done is different on every server -- otherwise I'd
just tell ya.

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too prefer NS as my browser. There is a site I frequent where I can link to a
DWF file using NS 6. My browser will pop a window asking me what I want to do
with it. I open AEV through my browser and everything works as expected. I am
trying to utilize the same function for my own web site. However, when I link
to the DWF file I create, I do not get the pop up window asking me what I want
to do with the file but rather the file opens as raw code. I just downloaded
AEV May 22 and am hoping that this version supports both IE and NS as I can
view one DWF file as expected. Does the NEW version support NS? Is there code
I need to add to my HTML the tell a NS browser to load an IE plugin prior to
opening the DWF file? Thanks for any info on this topic.

Tim

[Anonymous]

There used to be information on how to do this for various servers on
the Adesk site (somewhere under "DWF")


"Scott Sheppard" wrote:

> So if you
>want to test my theory, have your IT administrator define the MIME type for DWF
>on the server. How that is done is different on every server -- otherwise I'd
>just tell ya.


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[Anonymous]

Thanks for your input. I'll contact my IT guy and see what we can come up with.