On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:55 PM, jotobjects <[email protected]> wrote: > The docs say you can use an "http:" uri, which is not quite a > "specific real URL" in the way I guess you intend. > > http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/g-app-intents.html > > Is your advice in conflict with that page in the docs says about > browser intents?
Not really. If you read that page, you will notice the following words in a really big font, towards the top of the page: "Intents List: Invoking Google Applications on Android Devices" You will notice that the fourth word in that is: Google Google is a company. They have written *a* browser. They have not written *every* browser. The documentation on that page, at most, documents what Google's browser does. You are assuming that your unusual interpretation of that document is somehow binding on every browser developer. I am advising you to think practically. The point of browsers is to browse pages. The point of browsers is not to somehow fail gracefully when you hand it clearly preposterous crap in an Intent, such as a URL that violates Internet standards. It is reasonable to expect all browser applications to successfully browse a page, at least for fairly bland pages. It is unreasonable to expect that all browser applications will support your intentionally-flawed Intents. The only thing you are likely to reliably do with an arbitrary browser is hand it a legitimate URL, one that follows the specification for some legitimate protocol (e.g., HTTP). That's just reality. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
