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Petr Safar
Petr Safar

Reputation: 107

open explorer with javascript/html

Is it possible to open an actual explorer window rather than have the look in directory on your browser? So like the windows key + e window... preferably using html or JavaScript? I've seen it been done in a Firefox add-on called new tab king, but i couldn't figure out how to split up this code.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1319

Answers (3)

Yogurt The Wise
Yogurt The Wise

Reputation: 4489

Most, if not all, javascript is blocked from interacting with anything outside of the browser. You maybe able to accomplish it with a flash based object. Like they use for some of the copy and paste techniques using javascript.

Its a huge security hole to open up the javascript to the windows environment. I could ust open a hidden file browser and start coping files, or load something on to your system.

Upvotes: 1

Widor
Widor

Reputation: 13275

No, not definitely not using HTML and hopefully not in pure JavaScript.

Probably possible using some horrid ActiveX control in Internet Explorer but you really don't want to go down that route.

Upvotes: 1

Rob W
Rob W

Reputation: 348992

This is not reliably possible using pure HTML/JavaScript.

In general, website maintainers cannot use JavaScript to force the browser to open an application in a specific way, because that would heavily impact the user experience.

Upvotes: 1

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