Ability to launch a web browser..

[burtonator <bu...@relativity.yi.org>]

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Has been talked about before?

Specifically at the end of my build I want to launch a web browser.  I realize
that this would probably be ugly but I still need to do it :(

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Re: Ability to launch a web browser..

[Steve Loughran <st...@iseran.com>]

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From: "Peter Donald" <do...@apache.org>
To: <an...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: Ability to launch a web browser..


> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:40, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> > On 31 Jul 2001, <bu...@relativity.yi.org> wrote:
> > > Has been talked about before?
> >
> > Not that specific.
> >
> >     <exec executable="lynx" />
> >
> > should work, doesn't it?
>
> There was a request to have a task that ran OS specific launcher depending
on
> mimetype. ie on win32 you can go
>
> start foo.html
> or
> start blah.jpg
>
> There is similar mechanisms in other desktop environments (ie KDE and I
think
> gnome also had a version aswell).
>
> There was discussion but no actual implementation ;)

yeah, it was too complicated to be fully cross platform, For web viewing it
would be tractable if the browser you had was java based or you assumed
netscape everywhere, but for generic stuff ... far to complex.

-Steve

Re: Ability to launch a web browser..

[Peter Donald <do...@apache.org>]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:40, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> On 31 Jul 2001, <bu...@relativity.yi.org> wrote:
> > Has been talked about before?
>
> Not that specific.
>
>     <exec executable="lynx" />
>
> should work, doesn't it?

There was a request to have a task that ran OS specific launcher depending on 
mimetype. ie on win32 you can go 

start foo.html
or
start blah.jpg

There is similar mechanisms in other desktop environments (ie KDE and I think 
gnome also had a version aswell). 

There was discussion but no actual implementation ;)

Cheers,

Pete

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Re: Ability to launch a web browser..

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On 31 Jul 2001, <bu...@relativity.yi.org> wrote:

> Has been talked about before?

Not that specific.

    <exec executable="lynx" />

should work, doesn't it?

Stefan