Difference between revisions of "Web Share"

Revision as of 22:16, 11 June 2022

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
  • Text
    • 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

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