Browser-specific parameters
BYOND object (JavaScript)
- Shortcuts for client interaction
- Interact with the skin via JavaScript
- Provides persistent storage options for small data
A browser panel integrated into the skin.
Browsers are capable of displaying HTML documents, and can also interact with the skin.
Browsers and popups
A longstanding behavior of BYOND is the ability to create a new browser window by sending an extra argument to the browse() proc. Since the advent of skins in BYOND 4.0, this behavior was kept. When you create a new browser popup, the window name you specify for the popup is used for the name of a new window control, and within that window there will be a new browser control simply called browser.
If you want to interact with the new browser, its full “decorated” id is *windowname*.browser.
Running JavaScript from DM
Sending output() to a browser will send a document to display there, but if you follow the browser’s control name with a colon and a function name, you can call a JavaScript function in the document displayed within that browser.
var/list/info = list("name"="fridge", "power"=12)
// send {"name":"fridge","power":12} to a JavaScript function
usr << output(url_encode(json_encode(info)), "mybrowser:myJSfunction")The text that you send as output will be parsed like URL parameters, where mutliple arguments to the function are separated by & or ;, which is why url_encode() is wrapped around the json_encode() call in this example.
More browser options
These topics cover more advanced uses of the browser control.