[plt-scheme] Browser support (was: New Help Desk)

We will almost certainly add mozilla support.

You can add a "netscape" shell script to your PATH that
calls your-spiffy-browser and translates funny command line options.

Paul

At Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:46:44 -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> [Please handle PLT Scheme list administrative tasks through the Web:
>    http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme]
> 
> Lo, on Tuesday, July 2, Paul Steckler did write:
> 
> > [Please handle PLT Scheme list administrative tasks through the Web:
> >    http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme]
> > 
> > I've committed and exp-tagged files for the new PLT Help Desk.  The
> > files are located in the help collection.
> > 
> > The new Help Desk uses the PLT Web server and your favorite Web browser,
> > instead of relying on the PLT browser.
> 
> This brings up an interesting point.  At least on version 200alpha21 [1]
> on my Linux machine, the choice of browser appears to be effectively
> limited to opera, netscape, or dillo -- based on my reading of
> collects/net/sendurl.ss.  I note that it is set up to allow the user to
> select amongst these three through the preferences scheme, which is
> good.  Two problems, though:
> 
> 1) it's not clear where one sets this preference.  I messed around with
>    ~/.plt-prefs.ss, but I couldn't get anything to stick.  (I didn't
>    work very hard at it, though, especially in light of point #2.)
> 
> 2) It would appear that one can only use one of the three browsers I
>    listed above.  Not cool; the browser I like (galeon) isn't
>    supported.
> 
> Would it be possible to make this more flexible?
> 
> I imagine that supporting the remote protocol for tens of browsers would
> be rather a lot of work, so you could use the same strategy that VM
> does: have the necessary command-line magic predefined for the common
> browsers, and rely on the user to do it themselves if they want
> something else.
> 
> -----
> 
> [1] Yes, I know DrScheme 200 is out.  I'm lazy, though, so I'm waiting
> for the Debian package to be released.
> 
> Richard