Web Share Target Level 2

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

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Incubation
Web Platform Tests: No

WPT details: https://wpt.fyi/results/web-share?label=master&product=chrome%5Bexperimental%5D&product=edge&product=firefox%5Bexperimental%5D&product=safari%5Bexperimental%5D&aligned

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

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=web-share
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+Web%20Share%20Target%20Level%202
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Web%20Share%20Target%20Level%202
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=Web%20Share%20Target%20Level%202

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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