Advice for choosing correct architecture/tech for a hobby project

[Ian Kelly]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:28 PM, John Gordon <gordon at panix.com> wrote:
> In <6a3c5b20-bce5-4c95-b27f-3840e9cc7df0 at googlegroups.com> Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> But I hit a snag today that webbrowser's won't allow client to open
>> hyperlinks with file protocol. I have both offline and online bookmarks
>> so that was a problem for me.
>
> What do you mean by saying "webbrowser's won't allow client to open
> hyperlinks with file protocol"?  Of course they do.
>
> My web browser works just fine with links such as this:
>
> <a href="file:///C:/Users/gordonj/Documents/foo.html">foo.html</a>

It works if the document that contains the link is also opened from
the local filesystem, but browsers will refuse to follow the link if
it was served over http.