I have a webpage which has links to documents (MS Word .doc files). If you view this webpage on IE8 directly, and click on one of these document links, it opens up a new IE8 window/tab and displays the document directly in IE8 with a limited MS Word tool bar which is perfect.
If I then change the desktop background to the webpage, if the user then clicks on the same document links above, the documents open directly is MS Word. Why is this happening? I need it to continue to open directly in a new IE8 window.
This is what the HTML link looks like:
<a href="file:///C:/folder/document1.doc" target="_blank">Document 1</a>
This bit of HTML works perfectly in IE8 directly, but when the web page which contains this link is used via right click desktop in XP > Properties > Desktop > Customize Desktop > Web where the webpage url is added to show the webpage on the desktop, if I then click on the above document1.doc link, it opens in MS Word instead of IE8.
The default behaviour when opening MS Word files in IE8 is to open them in a new tab with the limited toolbar. When you are using the same page as a background on Active Desktop you are no longer using IE8, and therefore it will open directly in MS Word.
So, I dont think there is a way to “embed” the document as a background or to trigger it to open IE8.