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How do I navigate the user to their default homepage ?

How do I navigate the user to their default homepage ?

May 26th, 2001 11:57
Thor Larholm,

There is absolutely no way to read _what_ the default homepage is 
without breaching standard security restrictions. However, even though 
you cannot read _what_ the users default homepage is, there's nothing 
to stop you from navigating the user to it.

IE5 has a default behavior installed called homePage, which has a 
navigateHomePage() method. Read more about it at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/behaviors/reference/methods/na
vigateHomePage.asp

IE4 can embed the WebBrowser object, which has a GoHome() method. 
However, this will only apply inside this object, and not in the entire 
window. Read more about it at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/browser/webbrowser/reference/Methods/
GoHome.asp

NS4 has a home() method on the window object, read more about it at

http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsref/window.htm#12
02388

The same home() method also exist in NS6/Mozilla.

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