- From: Michaela Merz <michaela.merz@rollofone.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 12:06:01 -0500
- To: public-webapps@w3.org
With iOS finally supporting the download attribute, sharing simple things from web to native isn't that much of an issue anymore. Any kind of download usually triggers a native interface allowing the user to decide what to do, based on the MIME-type of the data (can't wait for iOS 13 to go public) :D - Links can be auto-copied and pasted wherever the user wants or trigger some default action on click anyway. So - the usefulness of the web-share as is today - is limited. Thank you Anders for pushing the webApp philosophy even years back. Michaela On 8/7/19 2:20 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote: > On 2019-08-07 07:39, Marcos Caceres wrote: >> Hi All, >> We are happy to announce that we've adopted the Web Share API from >> the WICG, as per our Charter: The spec "defines an API for sharing >> text, links and other content to an arbitrary destination of the >> user's choice." >> >> Currently implemented in Chrome (Android), Safari (iOS and Desktop), >> and Firefox is working on a prototype implementation. >> >> If you'd like to be involved in the standardization process, please >> join the discussion at: >> https://github.com/w3c/web-share/ >> >> We hope to publish a FPWD soon. The spec is viewable at: >> https://w3c.github.io/web-share/ > > There are virtually tons of Web-2-Native applications which through > pretty unsane tricks accomplish bi-directional communication; Web > Share does not seem to change that. > > It's a pity that social media oriented features have gotten precedence > over regular programming needs. > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2015Apr/0053.html > > FWIW, I'm currently in the very early phases of exploring a potential > "loophole" in the W3C/Google Web API strategy for coping with this > requirement which several people have expressed interest in. If the > experiment succeeds I will post the result in this list. > > thanx, > Anders > >> >> There are a number of additional features being proposed that the >> Editors would really like feedback on, in particular: >> >> * sharing a `File`. >> * sharing feature detection, via canShare(). >> >> Big shout out to Matt Giuca and the folks at Google for doing an >> amazing job shepherding this spec through the WICG incubation >> process, including producing a great set of Web Platform Tests. >> >> Looking forward to a speedy standardization! >> >> Marcos >> > > -- Email is unsafe. Send confidential text or data via packfrog: https://packfrog.com/bt?ee=9b26b31bd
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