Class Browsers

Method Details

• basicBrowser

  public static String basicBrowser(String url)

  Displays a URL in a basic HTML viewer. This is only likely to work for HTML, text or RTF data. The browser can follow hyperlinks and has simple forward/back buttons, but lacks the sophistication of a proper WWW browser application.

  Parameters:

  url - location of the document to display

  Returns:

  short log message

• systemBrowser

  public static String systemBrowser(String url)

  Attempts to display a URL in the system's default web browser. Exactly what couts as the default web browser is system dependent, as is whether this function will work properly.

  Parameters:

  url - location of the document to display

  Returns:

  short log message

• mozilla

  public static String mozilla(String url)

  Displays a URL in a Mozilla web browser. Probably only works on Unix-like operating systems, and only if Mozilla is already running.

  Parameters:

  url - location of the document to display

  Returns:

  short log message

• firefox

  public static String firefox(String url)

  Displays a URL in a Firefox web browser. Probably only works on Unix-like operating systems, and only if Firefox is already running.

  Parameters:

  url - location of the document to display

  Returns:

  short log message

• netscape

  public static String netscape(String url)

  Displays a URL in a Netscape web browser. Probably only works on Unix-like operating systems, and only if Netscape is already running.

  Parameters:

  url - location of the document to display

  Returns:

  short log message

• mozalike

  public static String mozalike(String cmd, String url)

  Displays a URL in a web browser from the Mozilla family; it must support flags of the type "-remote openURL(url)". Probably only works on Unix-like operating systems, and only if the browser is already running.

  Parameters:

  cmd - name or path of the browser command

  url - location of the document to display

  Returns:

  short log message