[thelist] Stop Word, Excel, PDF loading into browser

No, it will not fire up Word, it'll pay attention to the MIME type ....

And, you can tweak your file extensions in windows; they're all just mime
typed in the registry ... so you can do what yer talkin about ...

sgd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Crawford [mailto:joe@artlung.com]

> Exactly. .doc is forever beholden to Word for time immemorial.
> 
> Which pretty much sucks.
> 
> What happens if you feed, say, a Mac user saved an illustrator file as
> OurFile.doc (entirely possible given the way Macs are 
> extensionless) --
> and the sysadmin sets the mimetype to illustrator/eps -- will 
> IE try to
> fire up Word?
>