Traffic on the Web Intents mailing list has been low for the last few months. Browser and website adoption has stagnated. The spec has become huge and unwieldy,

Traffic on the Web Intents mailing list has been low for the last few months. Browser and website adoption has stagnated. The spec has become huge and unwieldy, and has drifted widely out of scope. Participants have moved on to other things. The group has recognized this and I think the Nokia people are right to assume that if WebIntents comes back one day, it will probably be with a wholly different approach. This is not premature in my opinion, it's just the official recognition of the project's state. There is no reason to believe the shelving will not occur, since it's being proposed by the people who are actually in charge of working out the spec. I would love to be wrong, but that doesn't look likely. Compare the fanfare when WI was announced to the level of public interest now.