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[Mitchell Reese <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ted, thanks for your reply. I've just been testing the url-dispatcher 
functionality with my CUA webbanker app - this is online banking using 
the CUA mobile website - I use this almost daily.

Anyway, having followed the instructions from the guide below, and also 
your app example, it doesn't seem to work. Using the browser still 
navigates to the site I'm trying to get opened in the webapp - all that 
happens is the page opens in a browser instead. Does this not work 
within the browser, and is only for scopes/other apps? I haven't tested 
this within anything else yet.

Also, the documentation for url-dispatcher is very convoluted. I had to 
read it several times, and still carefully study your example to figure 
out what was going on. Neither is the url-dispatcher mentioned in the 
webapp guide on the developer.ubuntu.com site. Also, once the line

|"urls": "foo.url-dispatcher"

|

is added to the manifest.json, it can no longer be opened in the Ubuntu 
Manifest Editor within the sdk.

Cheers,

Mitchell
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On 11/12/14 10:18, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-12-11 at 09:50 +1100, Mitchell Reese wrote:
> >    * Are there any plans to further integrate this with the system?
> >        o i.e., When I choose a Youtube or Vimeo video from the scope, I'm
> >          directed to the Web-browser. What would be better would be to
> >          open that link within a webapp specific to that site. Is this
> >          functionality that could be included with the images? I'm
> >          imagining something like 'Default Applications' in the System
> >          settings, where an application (webapps included) could be
> >          marked as the default to handle certain links. This would be a
> >          much slicker experience.
>
> Any app (including webapps) can register to be opened for a URL using 
> the URL Dispatcher. Docs are here:
>
> http://developer.ubuntu.com/apps/platform/guides/url-dispatcher-guide/
>
> You can see an example in the small webapp I did:
>
> https://github.com/ted-gould/nespresso-webapp
>
> We do plan to have a user override for this in settings, currently on 
> the TODO list. Currently if you install a webapp that handles the URL 
> it will always handle the URL.
>
> >        o Is there any possibility of coding a different opening for the
> >          webapp, so that there is a slicker default transition when the
> >          page is loading?
>
> Not entirely what you're asking for, but a start in this bug:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/webbrowser-app/+bug/1387245
>
> Ted