Whatever happened to URI Schemes?
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A few days ago, I ranted about how chat apps have poor support for URI schemes. By "Chat Apps", I'm talking about the new wave of messengers - WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, Wire, and the like. What do I mean by "URI Scheme"? You're probably familiar with: https://example.com The "scheme" is https - it tells the computer "Open the web browser and load the specified resource." You may also be aware of: mailto:me@example.com This tells the computer to open the email app and fill in…
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