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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Advice for choosing correct architecture/tech for a hobby project
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 19:28:54 +0000 (UTC)
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In <6a3c5b20-bce5-4c95-b27f-3840e9cc7df0@googlegroups.com> Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> writes:

> But I hit a snag today that webbrowser's won't allow client to open
> hyperlinks with file protocol. I have both offline and online bookmarks
> so that was a problem for me.

What do you mean by saying "webbrowser's won't allow client to open
hyperlinks with file protocol"?  Of course they do.

My web browser works just fine with links such as this:

<a href="file:///C:/Users/gordonj/Documents/foo.html">foo.html</a>

-- 
John Gordon         Imagine what it must be like for a real medical doctor to
gordon@panix.com    watch 'House', or a real serial killer to watch 'Dexter'.