Given that Apple obviously did a lot of work to Safari in the 2.2 update, it is surprising to see that one of the biggest 2.1 bugs did not get fixed: Links to applications in the App Store still do not work, giving an error instead of opening the App Store program. Seeing that these link to Apple’s own store, this is pretty inexcusable. Was this not tested? A real surprise.
This has been reported and confirmed on several blogs already today.
The other 2.1 bug that hasn’t been fixed: Safari still does not honor META REFRESH tags, meaning that redirecting users from one web page to another still does not work. This could be for security reasons, but regardless, a real shame for web programming and usability purposes.
Hopefully these get looked at for future revisions, as the first bug is pretty grievous and obvious, and could cut into sales of apps (thus, hurting Apple’s bottom line and the ultimate popularity of the iPhone). It’s Apple’s history to (eventually) correct bugs like this, so here’s to 2.3 (or 2.2.1, however it turns out, as there are a few other little issues wriggling around with the 2.2 update).
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links to the App store in Safari work for me now.
From both the APPVEE site and AppShopper site at least.
They work for me too.
Load this up on your iphone
http://feeds.feedburner.com/RecentlyAddedIphoneApplications-PinchMedia
you will see the app links work.