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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Krzysztof Tataradziński
<ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 2015-10-12 21:05 GMT+02:00 Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Krzysztof Tataradziński
>> <ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> > 2015-10-12 1:41 GMT+02:00 Michał Sawicz <michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>> >> 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?

This is essentially a technical limitation, which Chris explained in
details there: https://bugs.launchpad.net/oxide/+bug/1260016/comments/8.