directory/folder view

[rbultje]

Hi,

when you type file:///tmp, you get a pretty folder view. How does this
work (view source isn't very helpful)? Is this (XML?) documented? Can
I write a plugin or add a hack to a webserver to do the same for file
indexing (obvious use case: webdav servers)?

Thanks,
Ronald

[Andrew DeFaria]

On 11/23/2009 04:40 PM, rbultje wrote:

Hi,

when you type file:///tmp, you get a pretty folder view.

Pretty is in the eyes of the beholder...

How does this work (view source isn't very helpful)?

Very nicely... ;-)

Obviously FF interprets file: to mean the local file system and dynamically presents information about the local file system in a "pretty" way.

Is this (XML?

Obviously not.

) documented?

Probably.

Can I write a plugin or add a hack to a webserver to do the same for file indexing (obvious use case: webdav servers)?

Web servers (I assume you mean a server running something like Apache) already know how to do this! It's (in the case of Apache) a server setting (See DirectoryIndex). As for webdav, that's another protocol...

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[Chris Ilias]

Here's the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294800
For dev questions, you're probably better off asking in
mozilla.dev.apps.firefox.
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