Re: OT: EXE files in HTML?

Bob Cunningham <exw6sxq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:08:56 GMT, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@xxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> > Bob Cunningham spake thusly:
> >
> > > I would like to be able to put an EXE file at my Web site and have it
> > > executable by users through their browsers. Is there a way to do
> > > that, say by using JavaScript? (My experience with JavaScript has
> > > been quite limited.)
> > >
> > > The reason I want to do that is that I have a software package that
> > > will construct a slide show containing a group of JPG files. I would
> > > like to make one of those slide shows available on my Web site.
> > >
> > > I think I could make an EXE file available using FTP, but I would
> > > rather make it more directly available.
> > >
> > > I will greatly appreciate any help anyone cares to give me.
> >
> > Do you want the exe to download and execute on the user's PC or is it
> > something more complex?
>
> I would hope that it would download temporarily and execute on the user's
> computer, effectively disappearing from there after execution. But I
> guess all I really want is for the slide show to execute upon one mouse
> click without the user knowing or caring what it's doing in detail.

This is theoretically possible, more or less, but it requires that your
users be a. using Windows, b. using Internet Explorer, and c. extremely
stupid. The default behavior of IE when an executable link is clicked is
indeed to download it to a temporary directory and run it, but no sane
person actually allows it to do this, as it's a horrible security risk.

The correct solution is use some form of web slideshow tool, like a
JavaScript or a Java applet.
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Aaron Davies
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