If I drag a URL from the Address Field in the front-most OW 5.5 window to my desktop, it creates a .webloc file that indicates it will open in OmniWeb. However, double-clicking this file instead opens:
1. A blank window in OW, and...
2. A Finder window showing the file.
If I drag-and-drop the .webloc onto an OW window, the page to which the file points opens.
This is not how it worked prior to 5.5. In 5.1.3, double-clicking such a .webloc opened the page in OW.
I noticed the following:
1. If I drag a URL from Safari's Address Field and create a .webloc in the same manner, it won't open in OW either, even though OW is the default app for such. If I change that .webloc's default app to Safari, double-click it, it opens in Safari.
2. If I take the .webloc created in Safari and drop it on TextEdit, it appears as an empty file. In HexEdit, I can see, however, there are contents, e.g. the URL to which the .webloc points.
3. If I take a .webloc created by dragging an address from the Address Field in OW to the desktop, then open that .webloc in TextEdit, it reveals the contents are an XML property list in plain text. For example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>URL</key>
<string>http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?rid=FWS&product=N0Z&overlay=1110 1111&loop=yes</string>
</dict>
</plist>
I'm running:
Product: OmniWeb-5.5
Tag: OmniWeb-5.5-v607
Date: 2006-08-30 14:24:56 -0700
On:
Power Mac G5 Dual 2.3 GHz w/ 4.5 GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.7