> On Oct 13, 2015, at 19:05 , Conrad Shultz <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Oct 13, 2015, at 5:34 PM, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Oct 13, 2015, at 17:29 , Stephen J. Butler <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I think you're talking about Seamless Linking/Universal Links. Introduced >>> in iOS 9 >>> >>> https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2015-509/ >>> >>> https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/AppSearch/UniversalLinks.html >> >> Yes, that's it, thank you. Sadly, it's not as cool as I had hoped (I really >> want, as a user, to be able to have multiple choices when tapping certain >> kinds of URL, but that's for another day). This will address our current >> needs. > > As always, if there are enhancements you’d like to see, please file a bug at > https://bugreport.apple.com.
I've filed this request periodically for years. > That said, could you elaborate on what you mean by "multiple choices when > tapping certain kinds of URL”? Universal links are based on mutual trust: an > app and website mutually agree to let one another handle links. You can have > different apps handle different parts of your website (e.g. a video player to > handle videos you host and a social app to handle messaging through your > site). Admittedly, I'm currently struggling to find a concrete example of why this is useful, but I just know it is: Any app(s) should be able to register URL patterns they're able to handle. If the user takes an action that results in a URL being requested that one or more of these apps could handle, iOS should present the user with a list of these URLs, and get the user's permission to then handle the URL. The user should be able to do several things: - Choose the app to handle the URL - Make that choice permanent (and skip the choice) for that particular pattern - Permanently bar an app from being considered - Order the apps per pattern - Read an NFC tag that encodes a URL, and present the same dialog - Finally: allow iOS apps to modify the Wi-Fi settings (with user permission first). This is my ideal world scenario. I realize the last two aren't strictly about apps handling URLs, although a compelling argument could be made that doing so opens a whole new world of applications. I've written several RADAR requests covering all of this. -- Rick Mann [email protected] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
