Norman Gray wrote:
>>>
>>> Any objects to changing the default browser for HTX_BROWSER from
>>> netscape
>>> to firefox? HTX recognises firefox, and (according to Tim) nobody
>>> actually
>>> uses netscape these days.
>
> Surely all this discussion of which browser we should choose is itself
> mistaken.
>
> I'd think that the default browser should be the following script
>
> #! /bin/sh -
> browser_list='firefox mozilla netscape lynx'
> for b in $browser_list
> do
> which $b >/dev/null && exec $b "$@"
> done
> echo "No browser found (tried $browser_list)">&2
> exit 1
>
>
>
> Norman
>
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>
> Norman Gray / http://nxg.me.uk
> eurovotech.org / University of Leicester, UK
I do remember there being some problems with remote invocation
(openURL() and openFile() etc) in one of the browsers, it may of been
Firefox. So some of the features of HTX may break, test all the features
first!
Steve.
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