WebStep proposal: Standard default?

Rohit Khare (khare)
Wed, 12 Apr 1995 17:52:30 -0700


No traffic in a long time, but our friend Andy has a very incisive question:

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From: Andrew Stone <andrew@stone.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 95 16:13:39 -0600
To: khare@xent.caltech.edu
Subject: Subject: Is there a GLOBAL preference for WWW tool of choice?
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This code here:
if (!NXPerformService("Open URL", thePB) &&
!NXPerformService("OmniWeb/Open URL", thePB) &&
!NXPerformService("SpiderWoman/Open URL", thePB)) {

NXRunAlertPanel(URL_FIELD, URL_FIELD_MSG,OK, NULL,
NULL, [self stringValue]);
return NO;
}
really should be something like:

const char *reader = NXGetDefaultValue("GLOBAL","WWW Browser")
Look for users's service item....

etc.

My question to you is, have we nailed down what the
preference should be called ("WWW Browser" is clearly not it!)