[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 240025] URL Scheme for opening links in Default Browser from WebView

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240025

--- Comment #2 from Miles <mail at milesgreen.net> ---
@Alex, thanks for looking at this. 

My suggestion is from the perspective of Website Developers, not the App Developers. 

For example, Facebook's App Developers have made the choice to open all external web links in an embedded WebView. Content they don't own, manage, or need to interact with, but they are choosing to still open in a WebView.

As the owner / developer of a website or web app, I have no control over how Facebook opens links to my site. My site is stuck in Facebook's WebView. 

Due to complexity, security or feature support, Website owners may prefer their content to always be viewed in a proper web browser.

It's possible for the website to detect that it's running inside a WebView and display messaging to encourage the user to open in their main browser. 

But it's not currently possible for that website to provide a quick and easy link to open the current website in the user's main browser.

Thus, providing a url scheme for opening a URL in the default browser would allow websites / web apps to more seamlessly transfer users. 

Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn are just some of the big social apps that do this. A notable exception is Twitter, which opens third-party websites in a SFSafariViewController component.

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