[Ohrrpgce] Opening URLs and documents

[Ralph Versteegen]

Yes, kylekrack just now, and RMZ has requested it in the past, "especially
on Android". The problem is that you can't include a ReadMe on Android, so
there's no way to send people to your website except to tell them to thumb
in a URL, very impractical. (However, our open_document function wouldn't
work on Android.)

GLOW: itd be great for redirecting players to the forums and stuff
kylekrack: I was thinking for a credits page, to link to people's social
media, or websites, or whatever

On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 14:05, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:

> I remember we talked about it. I can't remember the details. Was somebody
> actually asking for it?
>
> I understand it is theoretically useful, but it also makes me a little
> nervous.
>
> ---
> James
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2020, 9:54 PM Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I totally forgot, but weren't we planning to add a script command to let
>> people open URLs in a web browser? To be used for sending someone to your
>> website. Of course, it should show a prompt (with a little dead-time to
>> prevent misclicks) asking the player to confirm. Didn't we already agree to
>> this? It would be easy to add since we already have a portable
>> open_document function.
>>
>> ...for that matter, we could let people open other files distributed with
>> their game too, most likely .txt, .pdf and .html files. I suppose we should
>> have a prompt for opening .html files if there's one for opening URLs, and
>> maybe a whitelist or blacklist of file extensions (disallow
>> .exe/.bat/.sh... must be a lot more dangerous ones), but don't need a
>> prompt for opening text documents, audio files, video, or images.
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