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Mike
Our software development product provides access to its
documentation by using the windows.showhelp attribute in
javascript within an index.htm. This allows users to
click on a link to open various documentation CHM files in
a new Internet Explorer window. The doc. CHM files are
installed on a local disk.
We use this instead of an HREF tag with target="_blank"
because of the File Download dialog box that appears on
most systems. This is a distraction to users to click on
the Open button for each file they open. From my reading
of KB articles, the CHM is one of the files on the unsafe
file list.
I do not see any way to disable this File Download dialog
box. Is there a way to disable this File Download dialog,
perhaps using an Internet Explorer Security zone?
The out-of-the-box experience will be that our index.htm
links do not work, so although we included an HTML link in
our software product release notes.
Microsoft KB article 822989 contains some information, but
we are uncertain whether an SP will address this problem
for other operating systems (such as XP and NT), but some
users may not be able to apply this patch on their systems
(not in Administrative group, etc).
We have added a link the KB article 811630 in our release
notes.
We are investigating eliminating our index.htm in a future
release, such as by adding multiple program folder items
for all documentation files, and have each item use an HH
command to open the CHM file.
Are there any other possible ways to have a link from HTML
to CHM without using showhelp and to prevent the File
Download dialog box?
Mike
documentation by using the windows.showhelp attribute in
javascript within an index.htm. This allows users to
click on a link to open various documentation CHM files in
a new Internet Explorer window. The doc. CHM files are
installed on a local disk.
We use this instead of an HREF tag with target="_blank"
because of the File Download dialog box that appears on
most systems. This is a distraction to users to click on
the Open button for each file they open. From my reading
of KB articles, the CHM is one of the files on the unsafe
file list.
I do not see any way to disable this File Download dialog
box. Is there a way to disable this File Download dialog,
perhaps using an Internet Explorer Security zone?
The out-of-the-box experience will be that our index.htm
links do not work, so although we included an HTML link in
our software product release notes.
Microsoft KB article 822989 contains some information, but
we are uncertain whether an SP will address this problem
for other operating systems (such as XP and NT), but some
users may not be able to apply this patch on their systems
(not in Administrative group, etc).
We have added a link the KB article 811630 in our release
notes.
We are investigating eliminating our index.htm in a future
release, such as by adding multiple program folder items
for all documentation files, and have each item use an HH
command to open the CHM file.
Are there any other possible ways to have a link from HTML
to CHM without using showhelp and to prevent the File
Download dialog box?
Mike