I have a cunning plan . . .

[Kzin]

How can I get Internet explorer to launch on a given page when users click a link on a site from Netscape?

I'm sure its possible but the ways that I've thought of seem a bit round about . . .

[Mark Sreeves]

Why do you want to do this?

If you want users to use Internet Exploiter just sniff the browser and tell them to.

(Directline's website won't let you use Netscape 6!)

[Kzin]

I need to fire up MSIE as I have an Active X that needs to use it. I get a regular stream of Netscape users either denying that the have MSIE on their Windows 98 systems etc or on a religious Jihad against MS. Most were happier to download a 5MB stand alone version of my 200K applet rather than run IE themselves but I don't want to support both sets of code.


(I like your 'icon' - is that the effect of too much coffee?)

[sail3005]

i don't think that it is possible from netscape. Any link or email link that is opened will open with the default browser/email program. The only other way i can think of would be a java applet, but i am almost positive that you can't run programs from a java applet.

[Kzin]

I think 'sail' is right unless I use say a self extracting zip file which puts a link to MSIE on the desktop with my URL as the command line