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Top Forums Web Development Opera on the Rise? FF in Decline? Post 302308622 by Corona688 on Sunday 19th of April 2009 07:23:15 PM

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Originally Posted by cbkihong

Yes you are right. However, to most ordinary users, unlike development tools, whether a browser is being open-sourced or closed-sourced is not an important consideration at all. What they are concerned is whether it is convenient for them, and display the sites well. Very few people would actually modify a browser engine, provided the browser has a plugin API for extending browser functionality. Today's browser rendering engine is a piece of complex mess that improper modifications may lead to subtle rendering issues.

My concern is less the ability to modify it as much as the ability to use it on systems and architectures its owners don't care about, and the propensity of closed-source software to sprout adware and price tags at will, or just up and collapse leaving its users high and dry. I've seen it happen to plenty of other things.

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WWWBrowser(3pm) 					User Contributed Perl Documentation					   WWWBrowser(3pm)

NAME

       WWWBrowser - platform independent means to start a WWW browser

SYNOPSIS

	   use WWWBrowser;
	   WWWBrowser::start_browser($url, -oldwindow => 1);

DESCRIPTION

   start_browser($url [, %args])
       Start a web browser with the specified URL. The process is started in background.

       The following optional parameters are recognized:

       -oldwindow => $bool
	   Normally, the URL is loaded into a new window, if possible. With "-oldwindow" set to a false window, "WWWBrowser" will try to re-use a
	   browser window.

       -browser => $browser
	   Use (preferebly) the named browser $browser. See "CONFIGURATION" for a some browser specialities. This option will only work for unix.

CONFIGURATION

       For unix, the global variable @WWWBrowser::unix_browsers can be set to a list of preferred web browsers. The following browsers are handled
       specially:

       lynx, w3m
	   Text oriented browsers, which are opened in an "xterm", "kvt" or "gnome-terminal" (if running under X11). If not running under X11,
	   then no background process is started.

       kfmclient
	   Use "openURL" method of kfm.

       netscape
	   Use "-remote" option to re-use a running netscape process, if possible.

       _default_gnome
	   Look into the "~/.gnome/Gnome" configuration file for the right browser.

       _default_kde
	   NYI.

       The following variables can be defined globally in the main package:

       $os Short name of operating system ("win", "mac" or "unix").

       &status_messages
	   Error handling function (instead of default "warn").

REQUIREMENTS

       For Windows, the Win32Util module should be installed in the path.

AUTHOR

       Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1999,2000,2001,2003 Slaven Rezic. All rights reserved.  This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
       it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Win32Util.

perl v5.10.0							    2009-03-10							   WWWBrowser(3pm)