Jeremy Keith:
So that’s my modest proposal. Extend the list of possible values for the type attribute on the button element to include “share” (or something like that). In supporting browsers, it triggers a very bare-bones handover to the OS (the current URL and the current page title). In non-supporting browsers, it behaves like a button currently behaves.
I’ve contended with the Web Share API for Unmark‘s PWA enough to know that this would be excellent to see happen.
@cdevroe I haven’t had a proper look at the spec but would this be equivalent to universal sharing on mobile?
@simonwoods Web Share and Web Target are actually using share that comes with iOS/Android/macOS/Windows essentially. They evoke or injest those features.
@cdevroe Ohhh interesting. So universal share was always there but never utilised in an open standard that could then be used by anybody with a website?
@simonwoods I believe so, yes. And Target allows a web app to accept those same parameters.