From: CHENG Gao <chenggao@cyberhut.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Deprecated browsers in browse-url.el
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:07:47 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m262w561po.fsf@cyberhut.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4CDA4942.5060604@swipnet.se
*On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:26:58 +0100
* Also sprach Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>:
> 2010-11-10 01:42, Andrew W. Nosenko skrev:
>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:11, Eli Zaretskii<eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>> From: CHENG Gao<chenggao@cyberhut.org>
>>>> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:15:10 +0800
>>>>
>>>> I am wondering if some browsers should be removed from
>>>> browse-url.el
>>>> since they are ceased projects for many years. Such as Mosaic,
>>>> Netscape,
>>>> Mozilla, Galeon.
>>>
>>> Why is it a problem that these are still supported? What's the urge
>>> to remove them?
>>
>> While I see no problems in a half screen page full of Mosaic-related
>> tuning (despiete of clutter of space and confusion of non so age-old
>> user, which may be born after gopher become defunct), I _personally_
>> see a problem in total absence of the more widespread browsers like
>> Chrome/Chromium or Safari.
>>
>
> The default for OSX is to use the system default browser, so that will
> be Safari if it is the default. On systems that have xdg-open (most
> GNU/Linux versions nowdays), the default browser is also used. If
> that is Chrome, it will be opened.
>
> IMHO, the way to go is to use the system default, not add more
> browsers.
>
> Jan D.
I agree. Users can customize default browser. Seems many codes can be
removed from the file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-10 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-05 3:15 Deprecated browsers in browse-url.el CHENG Gao
2010-10-05 7:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-05 7:26 ` CHENG Gao
2010-11-10 0:42 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-11-10 7:26 ` Jan Djärv
2010-11-10 8:07 ` CHENG Gao [this message]
2010-10-05 12:09 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-10-06 5:20 ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-07 22:56 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-10-08 17:41 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-09 0:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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