- From: Darin Fisher <darin@chromium.org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:57:14 -0800
- To: public-web-intents@w3.org
Received on Saturday, 17 December 2011 00:57:41 UTC
Crazy idea alert! Assuming we invent an intent to handle a mime type (the View intent), then I could imagine it opening up the possibility to not only support explicitly started activities to handle a particular mime type, but also the incidental encountering of mime types (<iframe>) or the explicit embedding of a plugin to handle a mime type (<embed>/<object>). Traditionally, browser invoke plugins to handle non-built-in mime types. It seems WebIntents could enable HTML+JS to be used to do the same. I'm sure there are plenty of details to work out about how an <embed> tag would magically have HTML content loaded beneath it, etc. There's also details about how the "document data stream" would be surfaced to the content. One could imagine using Blob or some other streaming mechanism. Crazy idea? -Darin
Received on Saturday, 17 December 2011 00:57:41 UTC