I'm still surprised that URL Schemes[1] aren't used widely. Facebook uses them to implement Facebook Connect, and sites exist[2] that try to aggregate various a

I'm still surprised that URL Schemes[1] aren't used widely. Facebook uses them to implement Facebook Connect, and sites exist[2] that try to aggregate various apps' schemes, but it'd be nice to live in a world where they were well-known and reliable enough to use instead of having to integrate individual third-party SDKs. 1: http://mobiledevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-application-via-a-custom-url-scheme.html http://mobiledevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-appl... 2: http://handleopenurl.com/scheme http://handleopenurl.com/scheme