Re: Proposal for using web intents for a print intent

I know this email was a little more complex way of interacting with
printing devices, but the simpler case is much like "share" intent
where there a cloud based printing solutions that accept just a PDF or
document, the theory being that you "print" a document and via
webintents it sends it to an API or service that will render it to
paper or something else that can than be mailed to someone.

I always imagined it to be something like:
+ https://printonline.fedex.com/v2.3.0/?s_kwcid=TC|16501|print%20companies||S|b|9706081275&&cmp=KNC-1000441-003-002-0950-0010000-US-US-EN-GPOL00000000000&x=1&s_kwcid=TC|16501|print%20companies||S|b|9706081275
Or
Costco's send to print images online and then collect them in the
store (http://www.costcophotocenter.com/account/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2falbum%2f)

The verb "save" and "share" doesn't quite fit the intention of the user.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:07 PM, James Hawkins <jhawkins@chromium.org> wrote:
> What is the use case for this?  What I'm really asking is what do you need
> that is not handled by existing browser printing, e.g., window.print?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> wrote:
>>
>> I spotted an error in my example:
>>
>> On 25/01/12 11:40, Dave Raggett wrote:
>>
>> > // now start the activity and redirect
>> > // the onSuccess, and onFail functions
>> > // to methods on the intent data object
>> >
>> > window.navigator.startActivity(intent,
>> >   function (data) { intent.success(data); },
>> >   function (data) { intent.fail(data); }
>> > );
>>
>> Should have been:
>>
>> window.navigator.startActivity(intent,
>>  function (data) { intent.data.success(data); },
>>  function (data) { intent.data.fail(data); }
>> );
>>
>> sorry about that.
>> --
>> Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
>>
>



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