Launch Program from IE
external, internet-explorer, launch
Solution
If you're talking purely from the browser, you can't register your own "protocol"... the thing is that when you installed iTunes, it registered the `itms` protocol so that any link that looks like this:
<a href="itms://something.mp3">click me</a>
Would open up the iTunes app. You can't do that (without running your own executable first which registers your custom protocol with the computer), but, what you can do is make a link to a file on our local computer... example:
<a href="file://c:/windows/notepad.exe">Launch Notepad</a>
I, of course, am assuming that you're making a simple HTML page that is meant for your own internal use (or on your companies internal network) to launch known programs from your computer.
Problem
Is it possible to launch a program from an anchor in IE? For example, iTunes had links like itms:blahblah that would open up iTunes and go directly to the appropriate page. If so, what is the best way to do this?