[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 194593] Add support for Web Share Target API

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Wed Jul 22 19:19:46 PDT 2020


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194593

Jerome Quah <me at zlux.us> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Jerome Quah <me at zlux.us> ---
(In reply to Karel Vanden Bussche from comment #8)
> It saddens me that Apple keeps pushing the brakes for PWA support.

Other than the fact that Apple, at launch of the iPhone, pushed for Web apps over native apps, the complete opposite of pushing the brakes I'd imagine; (Archive of their 2007 web app directory: https://web.archive.org/web/20071012025941/apple.com/webapps)

You should not be expecting Apple to be rushing to implement an API that is not on the W3C standards track. No one except Google has shipped support for the Web Share Target API. Mozilla's Firefox team still has this on their to-do list. (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/5783)

It is a feature proposed by Google, hence you'll find the API for it in Chrome, Opera, and Edge; the major browsers that are all based on Chromium.

Important to note that the WICG draft for this linked by Thomas states explicitly that it is a 
> draft of a potential specification.
and that it has 
> no official standing of any kind and does not represent the support or consensus of any standards organization.

Though I understand why he didn't specify the document's status; it would've been the opposite of trying to sell an idea.

That being said, I do hope this is being considered for development as it does more good than harm for the web as a whole, just make sure to have reasonable expectations of companies and developers.

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