18 Dec
2005
18 Dec
'05
7:28 p.m.
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 03:51:37PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
Simple things don't even work, like, if I click a
media link that opens
an external player, then it finishes playing, then I click another link,
rather than opening in the same player it launches a new one.
Eventually I have 50 media players open.
It's not the job of the browser to keep accounting on external apps.
If it were, it'd be doomed to failure anyhow - that task can never be
accomplished.
Rather, it is up to the individual applications to do the right thing
if there is a session already open.
xmms has worked the way you seem to expect since its inception.
--
Ross Vandegrift
ross(a)lug.udel.edu
"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
--St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37