Re: Netscape the Big Win

[Steven Champeon - Imonics Development <schampeo@imonics.com>]

|   From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Fri Jul 21 13:24:22 1995
|   From: Ray Cromwell <rjc@clark.net>
|   Subject: Re: Netscape the Big Win
|
|   > If you used a Mac, all you had to do is click on the URL in your mailer,
|   > newsreader, even some text editors, and the correct helper aplication will
|   > open the URL.
|   
|     Yeah, but does it fire up 1 browser process everytime you click on it, or
|   will it command an already running browser to follow the link? 

You can't have multiple processes running on a Mac. (Unless the application
has a different name -- for example, you *can* have two different copies of
the Netscape application, named "NS1" and "NS2", set as the default "helpers" 
for a) news and b) HTTP, should you want to do that...)

What ICeTEe does is send an Open AppleEvent to the browser application.
If it is running, it responds by opening the URL in the browser. If the browser
isn't running, it starts the browser and then opens the URL. The INIT
(extension) patches the System "TextEdit" routines, which are used in most
apps with limited need for text processing. The name of the INIT comes from
its authors, who wrote "InternetConfig", and because it patches "TextEdit".

This isn't to say that Java isn't cool :-)

Steve