The article seems to imply that you need a desktop app installed to extract fully-qualified URLs from the open application. I wonder why a better alternative wouldn't be to embed an encoded URL as part of the webpage itself, have the phone extract the URL from the image? Essentially a steganography-meets-QR code approach.
Deep Shot: Google, MIT Sync PCs and Smartphones with Snap of Camera [w/ video]
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The chrome2phone plugin works quite nicely for these cases
jw - is there a iPad/iPhone equivalent for chrome2phone?
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The chrome2phone plugin works quite nicely for these cases
jw - is there a iPad/iPhone equivalent for chrome2phone?
Handoff -> http://www.handoffapp.com/
Works well. I'm not sure how many of the other solutions do this as well, but it treats maps, websites, and phone numbers (and maybe more?) differently, launching the appropriate apps in response.