Trying to be "clever" with a URL in Linux

[Richmond]

On 14/05/15 21:13, Mark Waddingham wrote:
> Not entirely true - revBrowser is coming to Linux in 8... (CEF is a bit of a hoary beast, however, we still haven't got a 32-bit build working as the CEF project has stopped producing builds for it, and indeed 32-bit CEF - like Chrome I believe - is likely to be desupported at some point in the nearish future).

Thank you very much for a clear and instant reply.

I am not really that fussed, but this peaked my interest: 
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=14504&p=125636#p125636

Best, Richmond.
>
> In the meantime simple web pages will sort of work by setting the htmlText property of a field to the data returned from the url.
>
> (htmlText is a bit of a misnomer in this day and age, it was html with some additions many years ago, but html is now much larger and bigger than it once was - indeed you really need a web browser to display general pages)
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 14 May 2015, at 19:07, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So, revBrowser is a non-Linux thing . . .
>>
>> So, I tried this in a button:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>    put URL "http://www.distrowatch.org" into fld "wab"
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> and got the raw HTML code in my field.
>>
>> Wonder if there is a way to get that to display like a web-page in a field on Linux?
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
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