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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Mitchell Reese
<dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

That’s right, the URL dispatching mechanism is not hooked into the
browser: clicking on a link in a webpage will always open that link in
the browser. Anything else goes through the URL dispatcher, as far as
I know (i.e. hyperlinks in apps and in scopes, provided they are not
being rendered by a WebView).

>
> 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
>
> ||
>
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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