> No, you know that rarely works out in practice and is not what I meant. No, as far as I know it works very well in practice and thus I don't know what you me

> No, you know that rarely works out in practice and is not what I meant. No, as far as I know it works very well in practice and thus I don't know what you mean. Take this example. Steam has registered as a handler for the steam scheme on my PC. Any other app can open e.g. steam://store/655480 to link to a game in Steam. It's up to the scheme handler how the URI works. Steam supports a bunch of different actions and forms of deep linking via the steam scheme. Here's what Slack supports via its scheme handler, for example: https://api.slack.com/reference/deep-linking#client https://api.slack.com/reference/deep-linking#client It's exactly what you're asking for, so I have no idea what compelled you to immediately dismiss what I was saying.