Web Share

Full Title or Meme

An API for sharing text, links and other content to an arbitrary destination of the user's choice.

Context

• Web Share API current draft at W3C.
• Web Share is only available in the context of transient activation (previously known as user activation).

Problems

• Evaluate Readiness to Ship describes a problem at YouTube.
• The Web Share API is only used to move from a web page to an app which handles the following file types:
  • Application
    • pdf - application/pdf
  • Audio
    • flac - audio/flac
    • m4a - audio/x-m4a
    • mp3 - audio/mpeg (also accepts audio/mp3)
    • oga - audio/ogg
    • ogg - audio/ogg
    • opus - audio/ogg
    • wav - audio/wav
    • weba - audio/webm
    • mage
    • avif - image/avif

.bmp - image/bmp .gif - image/gif .ico - image/x-icon .jfif - image/jpeg .jpeg - image/jpeg .jpg - image/jpeg .pjp - image/jpeg .pjpeg - image/jpeg .png - image/png .svg - image/svg+xml .svgz - image/svg+xml .tif - image/tiff .tiff - image/tiff .webp - image/webp .xbm - image/x-xbitmap

• • txt
    • css - text/css
    • csv - text/csv
    • ehtml - text/html
    • htm - text/html
    • html - text/html
    • shtm - text/html
    • shtml - text/html
    • text - text/plain
    • txt - text/plain
    • ideo
    • m4v - video/mp4
    • mp4 - video/mp4
    • mpeg - video/mpeg
    • mpg - video/mpeg
    • ogm - video/ogg
    • ogv - video/ogg
    • webm - video/webm