Web Share Target Level 2

Category: Device
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 89)
Intent stage: Prepare to ship

Summary

Installed web applications can now receive file shares, e.g. images. Using the manifest, the web application can declare which MIME types and/or file extensions it accepts. Previously, mobile platforms allowed files to be shared to native applications, but not web applications.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://w3c.github.io/web-share-target/level-2/
Firefox: Positive — Implementation issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476515
Safari: No signal — Implementation issue: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194593
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=885313

Docs: https://web.dev/web-share-target/

Samples: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/web-share

Explainers: https://github.com/WICG/web-share-target/blob/master/docs/explainer.md

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