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behavior of external links in help view, <a href=... target= ...> [message #623772]

Wed, 28 October 2009 16:43

Edoardo Comar

Messages: 102
Registered: July 2009

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Hi

our help docs contain a number of external URLs.
No problem in handling them when the docs are displayed in the help browser.

However when the docs are displayed in the Help View,
then the behavior is hardly predictable (for a user).

a link like http://www.eclipse.org opens in-place in the Help View

however if we add <a .. target="_blank" > so that the link opens in a new window from the help browser,
then in in the Help View the link just does not work at all .

a target like
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v4r1/topic/c om.ibm.cics.ts.doc/eyua6/REMTRANtab.html

does not work from the help view

while the https version of the above
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v4r1/topic/c om.ibm.cics.ts.doc/eyua6/REMTRANtab.html
opens in the external browser (not the help browser).

Is it possible to give all external links the 'open in external browser' or 'open in the help browser' behavior ?

Edoardo

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Re: behavior of external links in help view, <a href=... target= ...> [message #623774 is a reply to message #623772]

Wed, 28 October 2009 20:39

Chris Goldthorpe

Messages: 815
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Your post touched on a few different issues.

This may not be exactly what you asked for but in Eclipse 3.5 there is a help preference which allows you to specify that any link in the help view opens in an external browser. You can see this on the help preference page.

I've seen the code that makes https links open in an extenal browser but I'm not sure why it is there, this code was there since before I was working on the help sysetm. My first thought was that it was because the embedded browser cannot handle https on at least one platform. My second thought was that there is a security related reason for it to be that way.

Opening a target which is itself a topic from another infocenter can cause problems, I think there is a bug open on this but I'm not sure of the bug number.

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