[Alpine-info] Viewing html attachment opens new Safari

[robert delius royar]

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 (19:01 -0700 UTC) Matt Ackeret wrote:


> If I try to view an html part of a message _in an external viewer_, it

> launches a new copy of Safari.

>

> But if I view image attachments, or open rdar links (from my other recent

> message), it uses the already-running copy of the app.

>

> (I don't typically view html parts in an external viewer -- I'm actually

> trying to reproduce an OS bug I previously saw when I accidentally opened

> an html attachment.)

>

> Anyway -- does anybody know if this particular issue is somehow

> an OS X or Safari issue?  Since other attachment types seem to work properly,

> I'm not quite sure whose issue it is.


Matt,

I have the following in my ~/.pinerc:
  mailcap-search-path=/Users/royar/.mailcaprc
In ~/.mailcaprc I had
  text/html; /opt/local/bin/w3m -T text/html -o confirm_qq=false -O ansi '%s'; \
   needsterminal; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
Which I temporarily commented out.  I saw the multiple launches you 
described.  Then, I added this line to .mailcaprc:
  text/html; open %s
Launching an attached text/html file now opens the existing Safari (and 
Alpine does not wait for it to terminate).  I recall that when I used 
X11 (GTK) Mozilla, I also saw the multiple opens unless I added 
something similar to
  '/opt/local/bin/mozilla -remote "openURL(${1},new-tab)"'
in an external script to which the text/html; entry in ~/.mailcaprc 
pointed.

To me it looks that if it is an OS bug, then the magic that 
/usr/bin/open performs overcomes it.

My OS version is 10.5.4 Safari is Version 4 Developer Preview 
(5526.11.2).  I use the WebKit nightly builds in the WebKit wrapper.

-- 
Dr. Robert Delius Royar                   Associate Professor of English
Morehead State University                             Morehead, Kentucky