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Usually, I use: ShellExecute(0, 'OPEN', PChar(edtURL.Text), '', '', SW_SHOWNORMAL);
How can I have the same behaviour (opening a link in the default browser), on all platforms (Windows and OSX)?
In the FireMonkey discussion forum I found this code for a question about NSWorkspace.URLForApplicationToOpenURL:
(not tested by me)
Update: Posix is not available on Windows so it is not possible to write a solution which uses the same OS calls on all platforms. I suggest to move such code in a central ‘XPlatform’ unit which has some IFDEF POSIX etc.