Open Bug 97968 Opened 23 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Allow helper apps to transform from one MIME type to another

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
File Handling
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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People

(Reporter: matt, Unassigned)

Details

When I come across a .doc file on the web, I have to download it,
use wvHtml on it to convert it to HTML, and then point Mozilla at the
new HTML file to read it.  It'd be cool if I could add a preference (like
the helper application preferences) to say "translate MIME type
text/vnd.ms-word to text/html with external app wvHtml", and have it display
right in the window like Mozilla actually understood what a .doc file
was.

I'm guessing that this would be an XP Miscellany component, but I really
have no clue.
XP Miscellany is for code-level bugs, and probably shouldn't exist anyway. 
Guessing this should go to Networking.
Assignee: waterson → neeti
Component: XP Miscellany → Networking
QA Contact: brendan → benc
mscott
Assignee: neeti → mscott
Summary: [RFE] Allow translation/fitlering from one MIME to to another → Allow translation/fitlering from one MIME to to another
Assignee: mscott → nobody
Component: Networking → File Handling
QA Contact: benc → file-handling
Summary: Allow translation/fitlering from one MIME to to another → Allow helper apps to transform from one MIME type to another
Product: Core → Firefox
Version: Trunk → unspecified
Severity: normal → S3
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