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[Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Krzysztof,

In theory apps are capable of defining handlers for custom urls. When 
an app or a scope tells the system that a link should be opened by 
another app, the system will check for a matching url handler and if 
there are multiple ones, ask the user which one he wants to use. I 
don't know if the browser app currently supports that without clicking 
the share button but I can tell you that Forum Browser (yes, it's me, 
its developer ;)) has no way of registering such a handler that works 
for all forums. Wikipedia links have a limited set of domains, but as 
you know there are hundreds of thousands of forums out there which 
support the Tapatalk API. Even if we had access to a list of all of 
them (which we don't), we still couldn't add hundreds of thousands of 
url handlers to the app.
I guess that the reason why this works so well on Android and iOS is 
that the Tapatalk plugin on the website can detect if the user uses an 
Android or iOS device and if he or she does, it can send an "Intent" 
(that's what it is called on Android) to open the link in the official 
Tapatalk app.

I'm sorry if this is not the response you hoped for but it's sadly not 
in my power to change that.

Cheers,
Niklas

Am Di, 4. Aug, 2015 um 7:46 schrieb Krzysztof Tataradziński 
<ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hello,
> while using web browser and click on link to Wikipedia website or 
> forum with Tapatalk plugin, I expect that my action will open app 
> dedicated for that action. For now, it's not working, still opening 
> that links in web browser. Which site that problem stand for - third 
> party app (that is not developed to work in that way) or browser app 
> (that don't allow/can't do that)?
> Where should I report that bug?
> In example new version of 
> https://uappexplorer.com/app/wikipedia.mattirn supports for now 
> opening wiki article from NearBy scope, but not from browser.