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.NET Forum / ASP.NET / General / July 2007opening a window in a different browser
Hi, asp.net 2.0, ie6, opera 9.22 For various supportability reasons, we need to redirect a page to a url and require that the target url should open in an Opera browser. The call is simple Response.Redirect(url, true); It works fine if its all IE environment. but am wondering how can i specify that the new window should open in Opera instead. Any page directives or something? regards, Ali Basically the idea is to open the web application in a particular browser and then the whole application will be shown inside this browser. You may want to explain what you are trying to do but if you want to open a page in a another browser from a particular browser IMO this is not posisble (plus it's likely it will cause problems such as sessions etc...) You may want to explain what you are trying to do... --- Patrice > Hi, > asp.net 2.0, ie6, opera 9.22 [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > regards, > Ali sure. The problem basically started with print and print preview functionalities. w3c specifies page-break-after:avoid and page-break-inside:avoid. this was very handy for us since we have to generate pdfs from our pages and may also want printouts. Unfortunatley ie6 doesnt support the 'avoid' spec! Opera on the other hand perfectly supports both. We now have the option to either completely switch to Opera or to open just 1 (our custom preview page) in Opera. The overall app is working just fine with IE6. the whole app is built with asp.net and is placed as a take pane in an infopath form. So i just prefer that in general it should still use IE, but when we need to preview the page, then it pops up in an Opera window, and hence allowing us to get a nice print preview Ali > Basically the idea is to open the web application in a particular browser > and then the whole application will be shown inside this browser. [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > regards, > > Ali Humm... My personal preference would be likely to avoid such a workaround. If the app is cross browsers I would use Opera at least when printing is needed. You could also see if this is solved in IE7 or if IE6 offers something similar but different (and posisbkly detect IE and ask to use Opera for printing as a workaround). You could also consider create directly PDF files (likely a bit late at this step as you already chosen the HTML route). Note also that if the page opens in another browser the session is not maintained. This could perhaps also cause for the workaround you are trying... -- Patrice > sure. The problem basically started with print and print preview > functionalities. w3c specifies page-break-after:avoid and [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] >> > regards, >> > Ali You have to alter the link that goes to the page you are redirecting from such that the page is opened in a new window. <a href="MyRedirectingPage.aspx" target="_blank"> > Hi, > asp.net 2.0, ie6, opera 9.22 [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > regards, > Ali > You have to alter the link that goes to the page you are redirecting from > such that the page is opened in a new window. > > <a href="MyRedirectingPage.aspx" target="_blank"> That won't help in this case...  SignatureMark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net yup. I believe that will open a new window but in IE and not in Opera! Any suggestions to how i can open the window in Opera? > > You have to alter the link that goes to the page you are redirecting from > > such that the page is opened in a new window. > > > > <a href="MyRedirectingPage.aspx" target="_blank"> > > That won't help in this case... * Ali Shahzad wrote, On 30-7-2007 15:36: > yup. I believe that will open a new window but in IE and not in Opera! Any > suggestions to how i can open the window in Opera? Firefox registers a special protocol handler called firefox://. Firefox supports your page-break:avoid rule. You could create a link which begins with that. But I'd strongly advise against it, with all the security issues that are being caused by this protocol. I'm not sure if Opera supports a similar protocol handler. A quick Google search for opera:// didn't help. Jesse >>> You have to alter the link that goes to the page you are redirecting from >>> such that the page is opened in a new window. >>> >>> <a href="MyRedirectingPage.aspx" target="_blank"> >> That won't help in this case... > yup. I believe that will open a new window but in IE and not in Opera! Correct. > Any suggestions to how i can open the window in Opera? Not without some sort of client-side ActiveX control - I'd forget it if I were you... SignatureMark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net I dont know exactly how to do what you ask. But I have an idea. You use javascript to run an external program. Just hope the antivirus software wont think it's a virus. "Ali Shahzad" <AliShahzad@discussions.microsoft.com> дÈëÏûÏ¢ÐÂÎÅ:31BD42C4-3AFC-4136-AE4A-4296B43CE877@microsoft.com... > Hi, > asp.net 2.0, ie6, opera 9.22 [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > regards, > Ali > You use javascript to run an external program. That would require a fairly hefty lowering of security, and would be no use at all on the public Internet... SignatureMark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net hi, but this can be a viable option, since we are running the application on intranet. What do you guys recommend: 1) using clients side scripting (javascript) to open a new opera window, or 2) server side API? since we are already doing response.redirect in code-behind. am actually not too sure how 2) will work, since calling an external app on server side might just do nothin on the client side! or? In either case, please send me some code snippets if you have/ small enough to write. and thanks a lot for your responses Ali > > You use javascript to run an external program. > > That would require a fairly hefty lowering of security, and would be no use > at all on the public Internet... > but this can be a viable option, since we are running the application on > intranet. Personally, I wouldn't even consider it because of all the additional work it will entail... > What do you guys recommend: Don't even try to do it... > am actually not too sure how 2) will work It won't... SignatureMark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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