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What popular platforms don't deal with app URIs well?



None of them are great. Android and very recent iOS are doing OK. Desktop OSes are still pretty bad. Clicking a non-HTTP protocol link in Chrome pops up a huge, user-unfriendly "External Protocol Request" dialog that warns of a possible attack on my system. That's pretty par for the course for desktop browsers.




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