SDL_OpenURL

[Richard Russell]

The SDL developers recently fixed an issue with SDL_OpenURL which prevented it working correctly on recent versions of iOS. This should mean that it now works on all the platforms supported by BBCSDL, using this syntax (here to open bbcbasic.co.uk):

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      SYS "SDL_OpenURL", "https://www.bbcbasic.co.uk", @memhdc%

(requires BBCSDL v1.41a in order to run in iOS and in a browser).

This is potentially a very powerful capability, because in principle (I've not tested it) it should be possible to use this mechanism to pass 'URL parameters' to an http server, even when conventional socket access isn't available, for example when running in a browser.