It's not so much the protocol that need overriding in that case, but particular URLs. This is the role of url-dispatcher.
On the desktop, we have the Chrome extension which offers to open a webapp when a particular URL is navigated to. And there is a prototype silo with that feature ported to the phone. https://requests.ci-train.ubuntu.com/#/ticket/427 We see this as a step towards supoorting an upcoming W3C standard around installable webapps (see https://w3c.github.io/manifest/) At the moment, we can detect installed webapps. Then we could support a subset of the standard that lets developers link to a preferred app in our store. Then at some point support webapps being added on-the-fly to the app scope. On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Olivier Tilloy < olivier.til...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Krzysztof Tataradziński > <ktatar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > 2015-10-12 21:05 GMT+02:00 Olivier Tilloy <olivier.til...@canonical.com > >: > >> > >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Krzysztof Tataradziński > >> <ktatar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > 2015-10-12 1:41 GMT+02:00 Michał Sawicz <michal.saw...@canonical.com > >: > >> >> > >> >> 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. > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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