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armsys
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IE7 VBScript

Post by armsys » Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:52 am

Can some MS gurus be very kind enough to show me a VBScript to insert new a tag with a URL such as http://online.wsj.com/public/us?

Using MS statements to open multiple webpages in multiple tags is possible but inefficient and unreliable

Thanks in advance.

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Post by Bob Hansen » Sun Apr 20, 2008 5:42 pm

Hi Armstrong...

How about revisiting Macro Scheduler without using VB script?

Here's the command line to use with Firefox:
firefox.exe "www.mozilla.org|www.mozillazine.org"

You can see it uses the "|" pipe as a delimiter. So how about this?
Run Program>Drive:\Path\firefox.exe "www.url1.com|www.url2.com|www.url3.com"

That is not too complex, and the urls could all be set with variables or by a separate text file.
Hope this was helpful..................good luck,
Bob
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Post by armsys » Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:16 pm

Hi bob,
It's nice to hear to your guiding voice again. Actually, my quest for the IE7 VBscript is challenging, if not impossible, because Microsoft hasn't release the details of the methods and properties of IE7 tabs. At most, all URL can be opened in spearate instances of IE, which isn't desirable.
Currently my code is purely MS. My ambitious goal is to incorporate all my existing MS scripts with VBScript/VBA codes wherever possible.
BTW, I wonder if MS could support JAVA as well.
Thanks for your help.

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Post by Bob Hansen » Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:42 am

It was good to see you back here again, you've been away for a while.....

Good old Microsoft challenges. Did you note that my response only addressed Firefox vs. MSIE? That was intentional.

Best wishes and good luck with your efforts.
Hope this was helpful..................good luck,
Bob
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Post by armsys » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:52 am

Bob Hansen wrote:Good old Microsoft challenges. Did you note that my response only addressed Firefox vs. MSIE?
Thanks to your advice, now it's the time I'll take a serious look at FireFox.

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