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sorry to hijack im sad that the Contact Intent API proposal is dead. https://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-api/ https://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-api/ this means you c
by leeoniya 7y ago
sorry to hijack
im sad that the Contact Intent API proposal is dead.
https://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-api/ https://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-api/
this means you cannot create a web app that competes with native apps in UX for anything involving communication.
i suspect it died because neither google nor apple want you to move/keep your contacts easily out of their sync'd address books.
- ceejayoz 7y agoThat seems unlikely. Google has an API for contacts. https://developers.google.com/people/v1/write-people https://developers.google.com/people/v1/write-people
- leeoniya 7y agoi want the ability to have contacts stored only locally on my phone (synced via carddav to my own server). then have a web api to attach one or multiple vcards (or specific fields from vcards). seems like a very sinple thing to spec out and implement. just press a button, pop up an address book, just like a file selector.
- djsumdog 7y agoI store contacts/calendars on my own server as well using Radicale + DavDroid on my phone and Thunderbird w/ Cardbook on my desktop.
- abraham 7y agoChrome just shipped a Contact Picker API. https://web.dev/contact-picker/ https://web.dev/contact-picker/
- leeoniya 7y agolooks good! is this on any standards track?