[thelist] Creating a desktop link

[Anthony Ettinger]

Sure, you can.
If you want the link to reference something on the
desktop?

<a href="file://c:/path/to/exe">local file</a>

I certainly wouldn't recommend doing this though...

Maybe if you give some context we can figure out a
better way.

--- Erik Mattheis <gozz at gozz.com> wrote:

> I believe it's impossible to do this from a web
> page, unless you want 
> to just tell the visitor "drag this link to your
> desktop".
> 
> On Friday, October 14, 2005, at 03:04 PM, Doug
> Sortor wrote:
> 
> > I need to be able to create a desktop link from
> within dreamweaver
> > so when people click on that hyperlink, they get a
> shortcut on their 
> > desktop
> > with my company logo that when opened or clicked
> on it goes to my web 
> > site
> > automatically
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas? I need it for Windows,
> Linux, Mac OS9 and 
> > OSX
> 
> 
> 
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