Simplify sharing with built-in APIs and progressive enhancement - Set Studio
Andy walks us through using the Web Share API as a progressive enhancement …but wouldn’t it be nice if we could just write button type="share"?
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share-button-type/explainer.md
If you’ve been following my recent blog posts about a declarative option for the Web Share API, you might be interested in this explainer document I’ve put together. It outlines the use case for button type="share".
203221 – Web Share API: should prefer URL to text when both available
That unusual behaviour I wrote about with the Web Share API in Safari on iOS is now officially a bug—thanks, Tess!
Introducing the Web Share API | Web | Google Developers
This is an interesting API that just landed in the newest version of Chrome behind a token—it gives you programmatic access to the OS’s share functionality via a (secure) website.
Paul finishes this rundown with the interesting bit:
Future work will also level the playing field for web apps, by allowing them to register to be a “share receiver”, enabling web-to-app sharing, app-to-web sharing and web-to-web sharing.
Maybe I’ll get to see a native “huffduff this” option in my lifetime.