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Web Intents

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Web Intents is an upcoming framework for web-based inter-application communication and service discovery.

Web Intents consists of a discovery mechanism and and a very light-weight RPC system between web applications, modeled after the Intents system in Android. In the context of the framework an Intent equals an action to be performed by a provider.[1] Web Intents allow two web applications to communicate with each other, without either of them having to actually know what the other one is.[2]

There are some Web Intents Proxy pages that make available some real services that don't yet support intents.[3]

History

The Web Intents project was announced by Paul Kinlan from Google in December 2010. He soon released a prototype API to GitHub. In August 2011 Google announced that Chrome will support Web Intents, and they are cooperating with Mozilla to unify Web Intents and Mozilla's Web Activities/Web Discovery (which tries to solve the same problem) into one proposal.[4][5][6]

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