Fifteen ways to send a tap somewhere else. Tap each one, come back, say what happened. Every destination is real, so the bottom half is worth keeping.
All six go to the same place, the Slaughter Lane theater page. Only the way they ask differs.
A link with target="_blank" rel="noopener". This is
what every outbound link in Alamo Watch does today.
The same request made in code the instant you tap, rather than written on the link. Some browsers treat the two differently.
Same again, but cutting the tie between the two windows. On some versions that alone changes where it lands.
A form aimed at a new window. An old trick for when the popup
blocker refuses an ordinary window.open.
An undocumented Apple address that is meant to force the real Safari app. Not supported, not promised, and I have not seen it work. Expect nothing and be pleased if not.
Slaughter Lane theater pageThe same address, sent by navigating instead of by link. Worth separating: schemes and links are handled by different parts of iOS.
Directions, the phone, what is playing, what they wrote. These are the ones you will actually use, and they are also the interesting cases, because handing off to Maps or Phone is a different problem to opening a web page.
Alamo's own Apple Maps address for this theater, taken from their schedule feed. Should drop you on the place card.
Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter LaneStraight to turn by turn from wherever you are. 5701 W Slaughter Ln, Bldg F.
Drive thereThe same drive asked for with maps:// rather than
a web address. Skips the browser entirely if iOS lets it.
By coordinates, so it cannot land on the wrong Alamo. 30.198783, -97.868787.
Drive there512-861-7060, the Slaughter Lane box office.
A tel: link, which is a third kind of handoff again.
Hours, the menu, and the parking directions Alamo points you at, which are not the same as the map pin.
Directions and parkingSpider-Man: Brand New Day, which has 113 showings at Slaughter Lane alone. Deep link into a listing, the way a card in the watcher does it.
Spider-Man: Brand New DayThe Bruce Campbell piece, the one that started all this. Same address the Articles tab uses.
Bruce Campbell hits the roadLeft for last on purpose. If this behaves the way I think it does, it will replace this page with drafthouse.com and there will be no back button, no address bar and no way out. Getting back: swipe up into the app switcher, flick Link Test away, open it again. Your answers are saved before it goes.
An ordinary link with nothing on it at all. The whole reason
every outbound link in the watcher carries target="_blank".