Scrapy docs: 'make htmlview' does not open the webbrowser

[harshasrinivas]

After compiling the scrapy documentation, make htmlview does not open the web browser.

>>> webbrowser.open('build/html/index.html') # does not work
>>> webbrowser.open('file:///path/to/the/index.html') # works

It works when I give the full path to the build/html/index.html file.
I have tested this using Python 2.7 and 3.6 on MacOS.

I believe this is an issue specific to MacOS. A minor change to the webbrowser.open() command in the Makefile should fix this bug. Shall I go ahead and fix this?

[harshasrinivas]

Any update on this?

[redapple]

hi @harshasrinivas , I have no way to test this. I'm on Xubuntu, and make htmlview works for me.
maybe @kmike, @lopuhin or @stummjr can check (I think they have Macs)

[stummjr]

hey @redapple @harshasrinivas. Just tested it on Macos with Python 3.5 and confirmed that make htmlview doesn't open a browser window if you don't provide a URL scheme.