Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:06 AM.

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system.verbs.builtins.webBrowser.openURL

on openURL (s, openURLIn=nil) {
	<<Changes
		<<6/8/06; 7:06:45 AM by DW
			<<If it's Firefox on Windows, add a blank to the end of the URL to work around a bug in their DDE implementation. For background see the comments on this post.
				<<http://support.opml.org/2006/06/08#a1124
	local (id = webBrowser.launch ());
	if id == false or id == 'NONE' {
		return (false)};
	case sys.os () {
		"MacOS" {
			return (appleEvent (id, 'GURL', 'GURL', '----', string (s), 'cwin', openUrlIn))};
		"Win95";
		"WinNT" {
			if string.lower (id) contains "netscape" {
				return (webBrowser.callBrowser (id, "WWW_OpenURL", s + ",,-1"))};
			if string.lower (id) contains "firefox" {
				s = s + " "};
			return (webBrowser.callBrowser (id, "WWW_OpenURL", s))}}}

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.