Hey everyone, I need some help figuring out how to force Dreamweaver (or just the html needed) to have a file open using a specific program. Best hypothetical example I can think of is how .pdfs open in Adobe when you click them on the web, can that be forced to open in another program from the programmer's end? Specifically we're doing some GIS stuff at work and when we publish to the web it's not using the right program to open our .kml files, however, offline Windows uses the correct program and everything looks great. Is it something as simple as setting the target attribute? Appreciate the help, thanks!
Yes as twistedspikes has said all users would need Dreamweaver and unlike Adobe reader for the pdf's it is not free.
Let's say hypothetically that they do have the specific program. I create my page in Dreamweaver and upload to the server. Within the page is a link to a file I want to be opened using say Microsoft Word instead of Microsoft Excel when the user clicks on it. Is there html code that can tell a computer which program to open the file in?