Set browser "helper" app

[Devin Asay]

Thanks, Richard and others.

Can you tell me what the mime type is for Safari? Something like 
application/x-rev?

By the way, who decides the official mime type designation? Who 
decided, for example, that the mime type for MS Excel documents is 
application/vnd.ms-excel? Is there a registry somewhere, or do they 
just "evolve" into a standard?

The topic of creating web-enabled apps in Rev is of great interest to 
me right now; I'm going to give a conference presentation later this 
year on Internet-enabled applications at a Symposium of foreign 
language educators. The working title is "The Browser is Dead; Long 
Live the Web". Of course I am going to be talking about how easy it is 
to create web-savvy apps in Revolution. I have read Richard Gaskin's 
excellent article on the subject, and I would welcome anyone's input 
who has experience/ideas on this topic.

Devin

On Feb 13, 2004, at 10:03 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Devin Asay wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know how to set the most commonly-used browsers in OS X to
>> automatically launch a rev stack (with Rev or some compiled Rev
>> launcher app) when it is clicked on in a web page? I want to be able 
>> to
>> have a user click on a stack link in my web page and have it launch,
>> instead of merely download or even try to show the contents in the web
>> page. Like happens when you click on a pdf link.
>
> You can do this by adding the appropriate MIME type in the prefs for 
> any
> browser -- except Apple's Safari. :(
>
> I use Mozilla and I just launched stack files from my Web site.  :(
>
> Th MIME types are there somewhere, only it seems Apple didn't provide 
> an
> interface for editing them. There must be a way to hack this very basic
> functionality -- anyone know how?  :\
>
>
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University