What are people doing to get the store working in Linux?

[guises]

Since the store changed I haven't been able to use it, but vaguely recall reading that some people had gotten it working in WINE - what are you all doing?

I'm using PlayOnLinux, WINE ver. 2.10-staging, 32 bit, Win 7 mode. I tried installing Internet Explorer, but it hasn't seemed to have made any difference. When I click to open the store in an external browser, nothing happens.

[ArgentMage]

Since the store changed I haven't been able to use it, but vaguely recall reading that some people had gotten it working in WINE - what are you all doing?

I'm using PlayOnLinux, WINE ver. 2.10-staging, 32 bit, Win 7 mode. I tried installing Internet Explorer, but it hasn't seemed to have made any difference. When I click to open the store in an external browser, nothing happens.

Disclaimer: Use Linux machines at work, but play DDO on Windows.

First check that xdg-open is set to launch a browser that's installed for some typical mime types:
$ xdg-mime query default text/html
firefox.desktop
$ xdg-mime query default application/xhtml+xml
firefox.desktop

Then make sure WINE is set to use xdg-open: Wine config for xdg-open (http://www.webupd8.org/2010/03/how-to-make-wine-open-links-in-your.html)

[guises]

I gave your idea a shot, but I think I was having a deeper problem. Not to belabor the process I went through, but apparently the version of ie8 that PlayOnLinux installs is only compatible with WinXP (even though it doesn't say this anywhere). So I changed it to WinXP mode and then installed ie8 and that seems to have done it. The page doesn't load in IE, it loads in Firefox, but that's probably because I did what you said and set up xdg-open to do that. So that's cool, I'm better off this way. Thanks.

[ArgentMage]

Good to hear. Yeah, way better off using the native Firefox, since that will get regular patches.
Hopefully one of these solutions will help others, too.