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Hi @thomasd3 , sorry for the late reply.

I guess then all the other display functions such as Chart.Show dont work either?

The error seems to be related to your OS as Process.start seems only able to open executables on macOS, while on windows using a file opens it with the default program. Seems like we need to adjust this behaviour on runtime based on the OS. I dont have a mac though, so testing this could prove hard. I will push some changes and release a preview package on nuget, would be cool if you could test it when its done.

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Take a look at this pull in XPlot. I fixed it a while ago to work with different OS.
fslaborg/XPlot@19c9251#diff-b135992486db43681541285661efff96

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Thanks @zyzhu , this is exacty what i am trying now. However it seems like that xdg-open is not installed on every unix machine. I was testing that with the ubuntu wsl app for windows:

root@Surface:/mnt/c/Users/kevin/source/repos/muehlhaus/FSharp.Plotly/bin/FSharp.Plotly/netstandard2.0# cd /tmp
root@Surface:/tmp# URL="./7fd73ea4-eaa0-4ae0-8381-e15d337a4d5b.html"; xdg-open $URL

Command 'xdg-open' not found, but can be installed with:

apt install xdg-utils

root@Surface:/tmp#

There seem to be a few command line methods around to open the standard browser on a unix system. Currently i am trying to emulate this command:

URL="./7fd73ea4-eaa0-4ae0-8381-e15d337a4d5b.html"; xdg-open $URL || sensible-browser $URL || x-www-browser $URL || gnome-open $URL

which tries the most common ones with fallback. In my case, the third command works:

root@Surface:/tmp# URL="./7fd73ea4-eaa0-4ae0-8381-e15d337a4d5b.html"; xdg-open $URL || sensible-browser $URL || x-www-browser $URL || gnome-open $URL

Command 'xdg-open' not found, but can be installed with:

apt install xdg-utils

Couldn't find a suitable web browser!
Set the BROWSER environment variable to your desired browser.
root@Surface:/tmp#

Any thoughts on that?

Edit: I guess for starters, your solution is perfectly okay and it seems reasonable to require the installation of that package. Could be worth to revisit in the future

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I adopted@zyzhu 's code snippet. @thomasd3, the changes are available in v1.2.2 if you want to have a look.

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