- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:25:21 +0100
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:40:20 +0100, Paul Kinlan <paulkinlan at google.com> wrote: > I would like to add that we also had a long discussion about trying to > re-use the meta element for specifying intents. > > The syntax was something like: > <meta name="intent-action" content="http://webintents.org/share" /> > <meta name="intent-type" content="image/*" /> > > Pros: > * declarative > * use's existing tags so no changes to html spec > > Cons: > * no multiplicity - can't define multiple intents on the page without > complex encoding in the content attribute > * programmatically adding an intent into a page is very hard because > there are two tags. The UA can't decide when to throw up the prompt > to grant access to install the web app as an intent handler. You could also have <meta name="intent" content="http://webintents.org/share image/*"> or some such. Splitting a string on spaces and using the result is not that hard and a common pattern. And seems like a much better alternative than changing the HTML parser. Especially changing the way <head> is parsed is hairy. Every new element we introduce there will cause a <body> to be implied before it in down-level clients. That's very problematic. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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