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Preview in Safari 3 beta

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The Preview function doesn't work properly in WeBuilder 8.1.0.78 with Safari 3.0.3.
Safari ends up loading the homepage as if launched normally.
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Please note that there is no built-in preview in any other browsers than in IE and Firefox. If you want to preview in other browsers, they will be launched externally.
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Karlis wrote:Please note that there is no built-in preview in any other browsers than in IE and Firefox. If you want to preview in other browsers, they will be launched externally.
I understand. What I'm saying is that when Safari is launched externally, it launches as if there were never any command-line parameters passed to it. Safari launches and displays the default homepage, not the page being "preview in." I hope this make sense.

It may be a problem with Safari, though, seeing how it is in beta...
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Does this happen with Safari 2? All browsers are launched in a standard way <browser path> <url>, all serious browsers support passing URLs as parameter. I'm surprised that Safari 3 does not follow this practice.
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Just a thought, but does the URL get passed in quotes, or just a URL? Also, if its a file URL, it might have spaces in (c:\documents and settings\user\desktop\my files\etc...etc...) so do they get 'translated' to %20's?
It would be simple to test with a shortcut to Safari with the URL passed to it as a parameter.
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Post by daredare »

same here, i just drop down the file i want to view in safari.
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URL gets pased via the Windows ShallExecute if you know what I mean. I think ShellExecute deals with the rest.
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