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I am Paul Kinlan.

A Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google.

I love the web. The web should allow anyone to access any experience that they need without the need for native install or content walled garden.

Getting your app to support Web Intents on Chrome

Paul Kinlan

Chrome Dev and Canary (18+) now support Web Intents! Currently, intent registration is done via the Chrome apps manifest (not the intent tag) to allow the user agent to determine available services (including those on the local network or external native apps). The manifest entry specifies the supported action, data types, title, and path. Client-side code remains the same. Future support for declaring capabilities directly through HTML with the Intent tag is planned.

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