Re: Bug: openURL on MS Windows with default browser IE

Posted by Jeremy Winston-2 on Feb 14, 2007; 8:31pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Bug-openURL-on-MS-Windows-with-default-browser-IE-tp3699891p3699901.html

Curtis wrote:
> On XP with IE7, I could not duplicate the problem.
> It also works fine with Firefox.

Strangely, MS says the problem only manifests when
IE is the default browser.  Go figure.

> In addition, Microsoft's solution requires Microsoft-specific
> classes (com.ms.*) available only to Visual J++ (not Sun's JVM).
> So Microsoft's official solution is proprietary (big surprise).

*sigh*

Well, at least they seem quietly to have fixed the problem in
subsequent versions of the OS/browser, anyway.

> So I would suggest ImageJ stick with the rundll32 solution.

Indeed.  Thanks for the info.

-Jeremy