From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: CHENG Gao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Deprecated browsers in browse-url.el Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:07:47 +0800 Organization: cyberhut.org Message-ID: References: <4CDA4942.5060604@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289376824 3269 80.91.229.12 (10 Nov 2010 08:13:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:13:44 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 10 09:13:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PG5oI-0001sx-H3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:13:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60465 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PG5oG-0006db-VW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:13:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59730 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PG5oB-0006dW-K7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:13:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PG5oA-0000xf-DL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:13:31 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38968) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PG5oA-0000xV-3T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:13:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PG5o7-0001pQ-R7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:13:27 +0100 Original-Received: from 222.94.163.114 ([222.94.163.114]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:13:27 +0100 Original-Received: from chenggao by 222.94.163.114 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:13:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.94.163.114 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XnDSzJGdyAGYy5TRy4IKxo/KsiQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132498 Archived-At: *On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:26:58 +0100 * Also sprach Jan Djärv : > 2010-11-10 01:42, Andrew W. Nosenko skrev: >> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:11, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>>> From: CHENG Gao >>>> 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.