Re: Bug in Carbon port: browse-url-default-macosx-browser

[David Reitter]

On 24 Nov 2005, at 23:44, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> I think the implementation in Emacs for w32 is of the same type. I  
> actually think it is quite practical most of the time. This way  
> Emacs behaves as I expect it to on w32. Firefox installed itself so  
> that it took care of this. It would not have been possible if Emacs  
> explicitly specified the web browser. But maybe things works  
> differently on Mac?
>
> Maybe the doc string should be changed? Perhaps something like:
>
>    Asked OS to give url to associated application (normally a web  
> browser)

I think the defined functionality is just the right thing. On OS X,  
there is a system-wide browser default, which may or may not coincide  
with the association for .html files. The browser default is what  
should be respected.