IE5 brain damage

[John Cowan]

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> The associations should affect what
> program is launched when I double-click a file of a particular type. It
> should not affect what happens when I specifically ask a particular program
> to open a particular file.

For the most part IE is (and always has been) a simple container
for ActiveX controls (including the HTML one) rather than an
application per se.  An interesting illustration:  if you open
a file://c:/foo/bar/baz URL, where baz is a directory, you get an
ordinary Windows Explorer window displaying the contents of the
directory!

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan at ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

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