Missing Link

Missing Link is a set of helper applications that allows almost any web browser to open, launch, or run local files, folders, applications, scripts and other file types from links on a simple HTML Page. When clicked, linked items behave just as if they had been double-clicked in the Finder. Files are linked 'in place' and may reside anywhere on disk or partition. They are not modified in any way. File suffixes or extensions are generally not necessary. Files are always opened by their original creator applications (unless the creator type of the file itself has been changed). In various forms, Missing Link works on Mac OS 7.5.x to OS X. It works with Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera, and iCab. It even works from the Help Viewer. (It does not work well with OmniWeb.) To the best of my knowledge, it will _not_ work over the Internet except by proper Mac program linking. Missing Link is made with AppleScript. It requires no osax but the Standard Additions (included with every Mac). It takes up about 250 K disk space. The individual helper apps run smoothly with about 1 MB RAM apiece. A simple one-time manual installation, restart and desktop rebuild are required for Missing Link to work properly. A more complete description and demos for both 'Classic' (pre-OS X) platforms and OS X are available at: