So here I am, asking help (again) from good BetaArchive community.

What im trying to do is to create a type of home page for webbrowser in HTML/Javascript under Linux, that would execute a program on a host system. For example: the browser loads, homepage comes up, there is a link for example "chromium" and when I click on that link, the chromium should open up on my computer.
I have searched the internet for this but no real answer I found from there (only some IE thingy with ActiveX and so on, which in my case, will not work).
I also know its a big security risk and so on, but I run the page locally anyway so maybe theres some workaround for this.

If anyone has a clue or tip how should I go about doing this, I'd really appreciate you to share it with me.
Thank you

i'm glad this can't be done, think about it, it would be a serious security issue.

No way this can be done.

Uh...? Why would you even want to do this? I'm fairly sure this can be done with php but you should not do this.

Theres no danger doing it locally

There is danger. Doing this may allow further wormholes to be made which allow malware in. I can't imagine any browsers doing this easily due to the security risks.

I remember when I looked into Activity Centers coding and I know this can be done but since it's a security flaw, you can PM me for the code.

I didn't say it is dangerous to do it locally.
I meant if JavaScript allowed execution of programs on the client machine, it would be possible either locally or remotely... here's the danger.
I know there's no risk doing this on your PC, but having such a feature in JavaScript would be easily exploitable.
Note you can't even get access to the filesystem in JS... features like these expose user's machine to security risks and are not needed at all for a client-side web interaction language.


Sure it's JavaScript?

Well I dont really care which language it is in as long as I understand the code, also, indeed it would be dangerous remotley too but I knew there must be workaround for this.

Simple.

Have a page which has a bunch of buttons on it, and have those buttons perform different actions using <?php system('program-to-launch-here');?>.

I do not recommend this solution this in the slightest. If I were you I'd throw together your own GTK application to do it instead.

Well, this needs a web server running, but it works.
Maybe it's an overkill, it's no longer "the simple HTML document" of the open post but it's absolutely a viable soluton.

Not sure about coding in GTK yet, not so familar with Linux just yet.

If it's OK to you to run Apache on your PC and write a little of Perl or PHP code instead of JS you're done.

It's been done in OS's like xpud and Jolicloud, I don't know , take alook, but i think you require a specific browser.
alternativly, with firefox you can call files and just open them,n but it wouldn't be practical :
youcan use file://