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[Krzysztof Tataradziński <ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx>]

2015-10-12 21:05 GMT+02:00 Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Krzysztof Tataradziński
> <ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 2015-10-12 1:41 GMT+02:00 Michał Sawicz <michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>
> >> W dniu 11.10.2015 o 21:52, Olivier Tilloy pisze:
> >> > Can you please elaborate on what you mean by "using the url dispatcher
> >> > in the browser"?
> >> > The browser already delegates URLs with schemes it cannot handle to
> >> > the url dispatcher (e.g. "tel:", "mailto:";, "intent:" and the like).
> >> > If this doesn’t work it’s a bug indeed, but not a known one.
> >>
> >> I think what he meant is delegating URLs that the browser can handle,
> >> but there's an app registered for as well. I.e. the youtube app would
> >> (optionally, this likely depends on the URL dispatcher getting UI to
> >> select between multiple registered handlers for the same URL) be invoked
> >> for all youtube.com URLs, regardless that the browser can handle it
> >> internally.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, exactly! :) Another example - browser should open Wikipedia app
> when we
> > visit their website. Does Canonical working on it?
>
> No, there is no such functionality in the browser, and we’re not
> planning on implementing it.
> oxide does have an API to register custom URL scheme handlers
> (WebContext.allowedExtraUrlSchemes), but that won’t work for
> overriding known schemes such as http.
>
> Thanks for your answer Olivier.
If you can please explain me why - is there technical problems, lack of
resources, security issues, philosophy of OS or other?

Best regards,
Krzysztof Tataradziński,
https://launchpad.net/~ktatar156

HTH,
>
>  Olivier
>