I've been curious about the links in the web pages that ' open ' certain applications using a kind of mime within a <a href="mailto:[email protected]">correo</a> tag (it's the best known ), this will be the mail client that we have installed, if we are viewing the web from a PC it will open Outlook (in Office with Windows, for example) or if it is from an Android mobile it will open the Gmail application in order to send an email.
I was also surprised that with a tel:12345 I could open the dialer of my phone directly from a mobile, or if I have the Skype application from the PC.
I looked for some examples of other cases:
mailto:[email protected] //para abrir el gestor de correo
tel:+5555555555 //para abrir el marcador de telefono
file:url //para abrir un archivo local
magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:PDAQRAOQQRYS76MRZJ33LK4MMVZBDSCL //para abrir el cliente torrent
market://details?id=com.example.android //para abrir Google Play
whatsapp://send?text=Hola&phone=+555555 //para abrir Whatsapp
My question is: Is there a mime to open a map? I was thinking of directly opening Google Maps (or Earth) from a mobile or pc using directions and coordinates for a project about places. Also, I would like to know if there are other types of this type of link. Greetings.