This should work on linux (xdg-open) and OSX (open). If the program
is not in $PATH, it falls back to opening a browser window/tab with file:///
The only tricky bit is the javascript code, that handles clicking on the
link. This is to avoid unnecessary page refreshes. Until I added the
return false at the end, the <a>'s normal click event also fired, so two
file browsers opened. I have not checked portability extensively.
This allows me to not build-depend on blaze-markup, which was causing
me some trouble when tring to build with cabal on debian. Seems debian
ships Text.Blaze.Renderer.String in two packages.
Now the javascript does an ajax call at the start to request the url
to use to poll, and the notification id is generated then, once we know
javascript is working.
Depending on how the webapp was started up and whether the user clicked on
any links in it, window.close() may be disallowed by browser security
policy. Also if that fails, display a modal dialog that nicely blackens out
the webapp.
TODO: avoid Escape closing it. Bootstrap's docs are unclear about how to do
that.
This may be customised differently than the main page later on, but
for now the important thing is that this constantly refreshed page does not
allocate a new NotificationHandle each time it's loaded.
Very happy to have a reusable autoUpdate widget that can make any Yesod
widget automatically refresh!
Also added support for non-javascript browsers, falling back to meta
refresh.
Also, the home page is now rendered with the webapp status on it, before
any refreshing is done.
The webapp is now a constantly updating clock! I accomplished this amazing
feat using "long polling", with some jquery and a little custom java
script.
There are more modern techniques, but this one works everywhere.
Broke hamlet out into standalone files.
I don't like the favicon display; it should be served from /favicon.ico,
but I could only get the static site to serve /static/favicon.ico, so
I had to use a <link rel=icon> to pull it in. I looked at
Yesod.Default.Handlers.getFaviconR, but it doesn't seem to embed
the favicon into the binary?
