Registering as a Share Target with the Web Share Target API
Pete LePage introduces the Web Share Target API and the the availability in Chrome via an origin trial Until now, only native apps could register as a share target. The Web Share Target API allows installed web apps to register with the underlying OS as a share target to receive shared content from either the Web Share API or system events, like the OS-level share button. Read full post. This API is a game changer on the web, it opens the web up to something that was only once available to native apps: Native Sharing.