HTML::Display(3) display HTML locally in a browser

SYNOPSIS


use strict;
use HTML::Display;
# guess the best value from $ENV{PERL_HTML_DISPLAY_CLASS}
# or $ENV{PERL_HTML_DISPLAY_COMMAND}
# or the operating system, in that order
my $browser = HTML::Display->new();
warn "# Displaying HTML using " . ref $browser;
my $location = "http://www.google.com/";
$browser->display(html => $html, location => $location);
# Or, for a one-off job :
display("<html><body><h1>Hello world!</h1></body></html>");

DESCRIPTION

This module abstracts the task of displaying HTML to the user. The displaying is done by launching a browser and navigating it to either a temporary file with the HTML stored in it, or, if possible, by pushing the HTML directly into the browser window.

The module tries to automagically select the ``correct'' browser, but if it dosen't find a good browser, you can modify the behaviour by setting some environment variables : 

  PERL_HTML_DISPLAY_CLASS

If HTML::Display already provides a class for the browser you want to use, setting "PERL_HTML_DISPLAY_CLASS" to the name of the class will make HTML::Display use that class instead of what it detects. 

  PERL_HTML_DISPLAY_COMMAND

If there is no specialized class yet, but your browser can be controlled via the command line, then setting "PERL_HTML_DISPLAY_COMMAND" to the string to navigate to the URL will make HTML::Display use a "system()" call to the string. A %s in the value will be replaced with the name of the temporary file containing the HTML to display.

%HTML::Display::os_default

The hash %HTML::Display::os_default contains pairs of class names for the different operating systems and routines that test whether this script is currently running under it. If you you want to dynamically add a new class or replace a class (or the rule), modify %os_default : 

  # Install class for MagicOS
  $HTML::Display::os_default{"HTML::Display::MagicOS"}
    = sub { $^O =~ qr/magic/i };

__PACKAGE__->new %ARGS

$browser->display( %ARGS )

Will display the HTML. The following arguments are valid : 

  base     => Base to which all relative links will be resolved
  html     => Scalar containing the HTML to be displayed
  file     => Scalar containing the name of the file to be displayed
                                                This file will possibly be copied into a temporary file!
  location    (synonymous to base)

If only one argument is passed, then it is taken as if 

  html => $_[0]

was passed.

EXPORTS

The subroutine "display" is exported by default

COMMAND LINE USAGE

Display some HTML to the user : 

  perl -MHTML::Display -e "display '<html><body><h1>Hello world</body></html>'"

Display a web page to the user : 

  perl -MLWP::Simple -MHTML::Display -e "display get 'http://www.google.com'"

Display the same page with the images also working : 

  perl -MLWP::Simple -MHTML::Display -e "display html => get('http://www.google.com'),
                                                 location => 'http://www.google.com'"

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 2004-2007 Max Maischein "<[email protected]>"

LICENSE

This module is released under the same terms as Perl itself.

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