Browser-specific parameters
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.
Shortcuts for client interaction
winset and winget (JavaScript)
Interact with the skin via JavaScript
byondStorage (browser control)
Provides persistent storage options for small data