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- My hope is that this program or versions of it could become standard.
- Feel free to make versions of it but please let's stick to the name
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- "defaultbrowser"
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- on the executable.
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- The problem:
- When sending someone a html-file there is no way to know how his
- system is configured for dealing with html-files (If att all!).
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- The solution:
- Include the defaultbrowser arcive.
- Set the "Default Tool" in the icon to "defaultbrowser".
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- How it works:
- "Defaultbrowser" will search for a active browser and send the page.
- If there are none, the defaultbrowser will start.
- If no defaultbrowser is configured a requester will pop up.
- You can change defaultbrowser with the "Prefs-ikon" ,
- (yes its only a ikon, Do not rename it!).
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- Usage:
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- Workbench:
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- set the icon "default tool" to defaultbrowser
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- Cli-Usage:
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- defaultbrowser Ram:some.html
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- defaultbrowser http://some.thing.someware
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- Arexx-Usage:
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- address 'COMMAND'; 'defaultbrowser Ram:some.html'
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- address 'COMMAND'; 'defaultbrowser http://some.thing.someware'
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- *Note: If the argument isn't a valid localfile it is assumed it is a url.
- *Note: Starting defaultbrowser without arguments brings up the prefs.
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- Notes:
- defaultbrowser will detect if it's a local or networked URL automaticly.
- Local directory-listings are not supported (Only IBrowse allows it anyway).
- Always use full www-paths.
- Minimum wb2.0
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- ToDo:
- Better Support for offline-browsers. (Does anybody use them?)
- Detection of active browsers currently supports:
- IBrowse, Voyager, AWeb and AMosaic.
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- History:
- 1.0 first release.
- 1.1 bugfix, wrong text.
- 1.2 added locales and better gui
- 1.3 added offline-browser.