WICG/pwa-url-handler

`handle_links`: Should there be a way to open links using the default browser if it's not the current browser?

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tomayac commented

Imagine a user installs a PWA using browser A, since browser A supports installation of PWAs. Further imagine the user's default browser is actually browser B. Should there be a fourth value "default-browser" that would be different from "auto" and that forces all links from a PWA installed from browser A to open in the system default browser, that is, browser B?

"handle_links": "auto" | "preferred" | "not-preferred" | "default-browser"

(via http://twitter.com/kornelski/status/1493226187711262729)

LuHuangMSFT commented

I read the twitter thread and I think that's probably a different scenario altogether. handle_links is something that could control the experience for a link that comes to the browser, while the request is for links that leave the browser or PWA.

I can imagine a feature where links within a PWA's web content are navigated differently than links within normal web content: the OS is asked to open the link instead of navigating directly in the app or browser window. That would be outside of the scope of the handle_links proposal.

tomayac commented

Thanks for clarifying. This feature request is then indeed out-of-scope. Closing.

tomayac commented

For people following along, I have moved this in an adapted form over to whatwg/html#7628.

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