more effective use of the developers' wiki

[Simon Marlow]

Tim Chevalier wrote:
> On 1/21/08, Norman Ramsey <nr at eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> I tried using [[GhcFile(...)]] to hard link some source code into the
>> developers' wiki pages, so that people could easily follow what's going on.
>> Unfortunately this has come back to bite me because instead of bringing
>> up something my browser understands, it comes back as a '.hs file'
>> which Firefox thinks is a 'Haskell source file' (which is fine) and which
>> it offers to bring up in emacs (which is not so fine).   Does anybody
>> on the list know how to persuade Firefox to treat such a thing
>> the same way it would treat something of MIME type text/plain?
>>
> 
> There was a thread about this on haskell-cafe a few months ago -- start at:
> http://haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-October/033744.html
> and go from there.

If you don't want to read the whole thread, I've been using the "Open in 
Browser" extension in Firefox, and it works great for this problem (and 
others).

http://www.spasche.net/mozilla/

Cheers,
	Simon