Eric Pascarello wrote:For security reasons browsers can not access files on the local computer system when the page is serverd from http. You can change your browser security settings to allow it, but that might not be wise.
Eric
I thought it was a security problem (as I said, in Firefox you can explicitely set sites which should be allowed access), but HOW can I set this in IE? I tried to enable all the scripting related options in the internet options, but it still does not work.
As to why I want to do this: for development purposes. I thought it was the easiest way to work together with a (design) collegue for fine-tuning the css/javascript. I let our web app run in the
jboss on my development pc. I have set the <style..> and <script..> paths so that they point to the corresponding directories on my collegue's pc. He accesses the web app on my pc via his browser but can edit the css and script files on his local pc (he has access to our cvs but hasn't got a jboss or
IDE to compile and redeploy everytime he changes something). Apparently this method seems to work fine for the css, it only doesn't work for the javascript files.
Unfortunately I wasn't around when this web app was developed originally. My collegue says they did something similar back then so he could work in this fashion, but he can't recall how it was done. If there's another, better approach to this, please let me know.