Re: New approach to activities/intents

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.


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Received on Friday, 7 November 2014 09:37:06 UTC