Open excel in browser

[umar hathab]

Hi,
I want to open an excel file when user clicks on a link.I am able to open using window.open() method.But I want to know is there any other way to open the file using javascript.I also get by using href="333.xls"
will be helpful if some one helps
A.Umar

[rich werth]

i stick row and column data from a data base in html format using jsp and wrap the html code with microSofts xml. This allows the user to have an option to save the page as an Excel spreaSheet in IE or just save the file as a .xls using netscape.
To get the xml just save a file as html in Excel and cut n paste the parts that make sense.