Ability to open links in Google Chrome instead of Safari

[rbugajewski]

It would be nice if the app could open all external links in Chrome instead of Safari. This requires changing all URLs in the header and article.

I coded a short hack today that works for me:

diff --git a/conf.js-dist b/conf.js-dist
index 6e43e61..716d0f5 100644
--- a/conf.js-dist
+++ b/conf.js-dist
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@ window.apiPath="/tt-rss/";
 /* relative URL from the root to access this webapp */
 window.webappPath="/ttrss-mobile/";

+/* Should links be opened in Google Chrome instead Safari? */
+window.useChrome=0
+
diff --git a/main.js b/main.js
index 30168ea..129618f 100644
--- a/main.js
+++ b/main.js
@@ -832,6 +832,11 @@ function defineViews(){
         // apply content filters
         article = cleanArticle(article, this.model.get("link"));

+        if (window.useChrome)
+        {
+          article = article.replace(/(<a href=")http/g, "$1googlechrome");
+        }
+
         // display article
         $contentDiv.html(article);

The only cases where this wouldn’t work (and I could think of at the moment) are:

1. Environments outside of iOS where googlechrome(s):// is not present.
2. <pre> and similar environments that don’t render HTML and where the regular expression would match nonetheless.

[mboinet]

Thanks for the input. I think I'll go with a settings page where the user can choose the preferred browser. See issue #8

I'm also using Chrome and find it annoying when it opens in Safari ;-)

[rogierlommers]

Cool!

[rogierlommers]

Any idea when we can expect this?