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This is an incredibly cool idea that essentially brings back the concept of a decentralized web. Right now, we have somehow embraced a monolithic web culture we
by Udo 15y ago
This is an incredibly cool idea that essentially brings back the concept of a decentralized web. Right now, we have somehow embraced a monolithic web culture were interop goes only in one direction - towards Facebook mainly, closely followed by Google's conglomerate.
Web Intents will level the playing field again, and they make those horrible embedded Facebook/Google+/whatever social networking buttons obsolete by replacing them with something way more powerful.
- fpgeek 15y agoFor a concrete example of the power of Web Intents, consider this: On Android, a browser (whether the stock or an alternative like Dolphin or Firefox) could (and probably will given the architecture / history) offer some local Android Intent handlers as handlers for some Web Intents. To take the example from the blog post, at the photo storage website you could choose to edit an image and get menu of choices that doesn't just include web app image editors, but also includes native image editors installed on your device. That sounds pretty amazing to me.