Sending the window to your browser
To send a document to a browser for viewing use the menu.
- The browser currently marked in this menu is the one your documents
will be sent to when you use Send File to
Browser or Send URL to Browser.
- To change browser, select the browser's menu item to mark it. When
you select a browser in the menu Alpha also sends the window to the
browser.
- If you want to switch browser without sending the window to it,
hold down the option key while selecting the browser in the menu.
- To send the URL to the browser automatically when you select a browser
in the menu, hold down the shift key.
- You edit the menu by using Add and Remove.
Send File to Browser
Launches your
browser and sends the document to it.
Send URL to Browser
Launches your
browser and sends the document URL to it. The URL is defined in the
Home Pages dialog. This feature is useful when you
edit the document directly on the server and the document contains server
side scripting.
Bug! Netscape does not reload the page if you send
the same URL several times. This is a Netscape bug.
You can only have one version of each browser in the menu, but you can
still send files to any version from Alpha. Let's say you have Netscape
3.0 and 4.0, and that 4.0 is the one which appears in the menu. Now launch
Netscape 3.0. Then if you send a window to the browser Alpha will send it
to Netscape 3.0 although you had 4.0 selected the menu. If any version of
Netscape is running Alpha will send the window to that one.
This is useful when you want to make sure your document looks OK in older
versions of Netscape or any other browser, for example to make sure that
your megacool JavaScript written for Netscape 4.0 doesn't produce a
bazillion error alerts in 2.0.
