(Not strictly online but I couldn’t find a General Coding sort of section to put this question in)
What’s the platform-independent way to launch the system’s browser on a page?
Cas 
cheers, that’ll save me a bit of thinking.
Cas
sweet! i was looking for this a while ago… (http://www.java-gaming.org/cgi-bin/JGOForums/YaBB.cgi?board=newbies;action=display;num=1048264238)
…but don’t forget that under Unix these days lots of people won’t be touching netscape with a barge-pole. I would guess that more people used mozilla.
Of course, any recent netscape is just a modified mozilla anyway, but moz isn’t going to install itself with a binary named “netscape” in normal circumstances.
Arse. I knew there’d be a catch. Still, 99% of the people who download my demo are going to be hapless Windoze users, and will happily eat any shit they are given.
Cas
wait a second…
what does Java Web Start do when handling links? They do have clickable http://… labels!
Anyhow, try http://browserlauncher.sourceforge.net written by Eric Albert. It supports many more platforms than Unix/Win and works on my system so far.