'message URL' hyperlinks

[Shmuel Wolfson]

Speaking of hyperlinks, I have a:

message URL http://<url>

And when I click on it, it does not open a web browser. Basically, it's 
a dead link.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson



Steve Rickaby wrote:
> I have the solution for my posting below, although I don't understand it.
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> For hyperlinks of the form 'message URL http://<url>', FrameMaker correctly opens the default browser. However, for hyperlinks that omit the protocol field, i.e. 'message URL <url>', for example 'message URL www.microsoft.com', it opens any version of Netscape that it can find.
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> Huh?
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> At 10:59 +0000 28/3/08, Steve Rickaby wrote:
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>> This is a *Mac-specific* question which we've bandied about on the FmforOSX group for a bit, with some interesting insights but as yet no solution.
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>> For some reason, my FrameMaker 7 installation has become obsessed with using Netscape when web hyperlinks are control-option-clicked in a FrameMaker document. I have some archive disks attached to this machine, and it managed to find a copy of Netscape 3 (don't ask!). When in desperation I killed Netscape 3, it then went off and ferreted out a copy of Netscape 4.7 that was sitting in backup disk copy of a friend's Mac that I'm made for them.
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>> In all cases the default browser setting for both Classic and OS X is Safari.
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>> Does anyone know how FrameMaker selects the browser to use for web hyperlinks, and how to configure it? I cannot find anything in the user guide or online help (which sometimes opens in Safari and sometimes in Netscape).
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