Tip: Open URLs with framework.openUrl

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 4:06 PM

Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)

I'd bet good money that most Desktop gadget developers could recognize and understand this code snippet:

  var obj = new ActiveXObject('WScript.Shell');
  obj.run('http://desktop.google.com/');

Those days are over, as the latest Google Desktop release added an API for opening a URL in a browser:

  framework.openUrl('http://desktop.google.com/');

This is documented in the 5.5 release notes, but we wrote this tip in case you missed it. :)

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