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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 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]

Support for Web Intents

Google Chrome 18+ natively supports Web Intents.[3] There is a Javascript shim with support for IE8, IE9, Opera, Safari, Firefox 3+ and Chrome 3+.[4]

There are some Web Intents Proxy pages that make available some real services that don't yet support intents.[5]

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.[6][7][8]

References

  1. ^ GitHub: Paul Kinlan: WebIntents
  2. ^ TechCrunch: Google Announces Plans To Bake Android-Like Web Intents Into Chrome
  3. ^ Chrome 18 Web Intents support
  4. ^ Web Intents FAQ
  5. ^ Codebits: Web Intents Proxies
  6. ^ Chromium Blog: Connecting Web Apps with Web Intents
  7. ^ TechCrunch: Mozilla Labs Launches 'Web Activities' Experiment, Lets Web Apps Talk To Each Other
  8. ^ Mozilla Labs: Web Apps Update – experiments in Web Activities, App Discovery
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