← Back to context Comment by oldestofsports 1 day ago Browsers are great at hyperlinks, like really great. How about using browsers for hyperlinks instead? 5 comments oldestofsports Reply charcircuit 1 day ago Opening links is an operating system feature that any program can use and pass a link to. hnlmorg 21 hours ago Yeah, but it’s only browsers that render hyperlinks from untrusted sources…unless you’re saying you often download random executables and then click their hyperlinks? charcircuit 12 hours ago For http / https links the OS would open the browser for it. For other protocol browsers would not understand it. 1 reply → ernesth 21 hours ago You never opened a README.md that contained links in something else than a browser?
charcircuit 1 day ago Opening links is an operating system feature that any program can use and pass a link to. hnlmorg 21 hours ago Yeah, but it’s only browsers that render hyperlinks from untrusted sources…unless you’re saying you often download random executables and then click their hyperlinks? charcircuit 12 hours ago For http / https links the OS would open the browser for it. For other protocol browsers would not understand it. 1 reply →
hnlmorg 21 hours ago Yeah, but it’s only browsers that render hyperlinks from untrusted sources…unless you’re saying you often download random executables and then click their hyperlinks? charcircuit 12 hours ago For http / https links the OS would open the browser for it. For other protocol browsers would not understand it. 1 reply →
charcircuit 12 hours ago For http / https links the OS would open the browser for it. For other protocol browsers would not understand it. 1 reply →
ernesth 21 hours ago You never opened a README.md that contained links in something else than a browser?
Opening links is an operating system feature that any program can use and pass a link to.
Yeah, but it’s only browsers that render hyperlinks from untrusted sources…unless you’re saying you often download random executables and then click their hyperlinks?
For http / https links the OS would open the browser for it. For other protocol browsers would not understand it.
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You never opened a README.md that contained links in something else than a browser?