- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 10:36:37 +0100
- To: Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>
- Cc: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr> wrote: > My understanding of the document is that a website can register itself > as a share endpoint but can't try to programmatically starts a share > action; instead, the user will use the browser UI to do so. Is that > correct? I assume also that the UA would show a UI requesting the user > whether they want to accept foo.com to be added as a share endpoint, > right? Yes and yes. > Wouldn't be worth experimenting first with a list of predefined share > endpoints (that you anyway might want to have) and see if the feature is > actually something that users are looking for? We have something like that in Firefox Nightly. Apple ships something similar in Safari. Both can be extended through proprietary APIs. > Furthermore, wouldn't > that make sense to have a similar mechanism than Open Search and have a > way for a website to advertise its share endpoint(s)? Maybe the Manifest > could be a good use for that. Generally speaking, I see a lot of common > aspects between Open Search and this proposal. Maybe. It would be even less flexible and depend even more on user interface innovation from the user agent. -- https://annevankesteren.nl/
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