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Re: sensible-browser and sensible-image-viewer



On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 01:17:37PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:

> It seems the simplest way to implement it is to have each browser
> add an alternatives for "web-browser".
> 
> This way sensible-browser has only to look at $BROWSER
> and if it is not defined, use web-browser.
>
> The only problem I see is that we need to know which
> browsers are text mode and need to be lauched in a terminal,
> and which terminal.(if we are under X)
> 
> And does browsers have to register mime type text/html ?

mailcap already has a facility for taking care of that sort of thing.  All that
is necessary is a MIME type for URL data (this may already exist, but I don't
know what it is).

-- 
 - mdz



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