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This is amazing. This is huge. But for this to be a full success, the other vendors will also need to come on board. Can't think of a more important feature th
by jeswin 11y ago
This is amazing. This is huge.
But for this to be a full success, the other vendors will also need to come on board. Can't think of a more important feature that needs standardization than intents. So once this gets standardized:
- Mozilla probably will implement, because (barring minor transgressions) they care about users more than everyone else.
- Microsoft may, because any chance of increasing their 2.5% market share depends on maximal interop and web-apps being a genuine cross-platform solution to make up for the lack of apps in their App store.
- Apple and Safari. This is going to take time, if ever. They might even come up with their own solution, requiring developers to implement two solutions to do the same thing. Strategy-wise, web apps becoming more potent is not in their interest.
- mgiuca 11y agoI'm glad you're enthusiastic! But just to set realistic expectations: "this is less about proposing an API, and more about starting a conversation" (https://github.com/chromium/ballista https://github.com/chromium/ballista). There is no guarantee that this project will go ahead, even within Chromium/Chrome. We aren't going to standardize first, then expect buy-in from other browser vendors. We expect to have a discussion (with the web community, including web developers and browser vendors), and from there either jointly standardize/implement, or not. We won't commit to this in Chrome unless we get cooperation from the web community.