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

There are a few drawbacks with using the link element.
* link must appear in the head and is a void element.
  - This prevents the use case of the service site providing alternative UI
if <intent> is not supported: <intent ...>Intents are not supported!  Check
out this work-around</intent>
* In the current syntax you provided, how would the UA know this is an
intent registration?  Per the spec, |action| is just a string; we use URLs
to set precedence as a developer-friendly way of documenting the action.
* We'd have to change the HTML parsing algorithm.

Can you share your objections to using the <intent> element?

Thanks,
James

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Mike Kelly <mikekelly321@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> Ok thanks, that being the case, what is the difference between <link> vs
> <intent> and @rel vs @action in the following example:
>
> <intent action="http://webintents.org/subscribe" type=".."  href=".." />
>
> <link rel="http://webintents.org/subscribe" type=".." href=".." />
>
> So, is it possible for web intents to simply re-use the existing,
> ubiquitous <link> instead of having to introduce <intent>?
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Paul Kinlan <paulkinlan@google.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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