Re: Is there an existing mechanism that can be used for WebIntents?

Hi,

This was something that I started to document under
http://webintents.org/subscribe - the intents discovery mechanism in the
spec doesn't preculde a UA from detecting this and allowing the user to
invoke an action to subscribe to the feed using their preferred application.

P

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Mike Kelly <mikekelly321@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering whether an example of 'web intent' behaviour has
> already existed for some time:
>
> The example I am thinking of is driven by atom/rss links in the head
> of HTML pages, i.e. an html page containing the following link in the
> head of the document..
>
> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="...." />
>
> ... this causes a browser (e.g. Firefox) to present the user with the
> option to 'Subscribe to This Page' where the user can fulfil their
> 'subscription intent'.
>
> Would this be considered an equivalent of a web intent?
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
>
>


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