What Happened to Web Intents?

getdavidhiggins · on Feb 14, 2015

Look at the history of protocols and software patterns. The ones that survived are never by design - they happen by accident. It's worth throwing a bunch of stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. I'm sorry to hear you're disappointed with web intents. Your marketing might be wrong. The Wikipedia says a "experimental framework". Firstly:

Why experimental? You are either running with your own ideas or not.

Secondly: Why is it called a framework? It seems more like a software pattern, or UX pattern than a framework. It could even be pushing the protocol level, but I don't think it has reached 'protocol' status yet.

jashkenas · on Feb 13, 2015

A beautiful case study in how and why standardizing (https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/web-intents/raw-file/tip/spec/Overvie...) an idea before thinking it through in practice is a waste of time.

kinlan · on Feb 13, 2015

We did think it through.... I just think we could have listened a lot more, collaborated a lot more and, well, yes think it through a bit more.

I am buoyed by the fact that we know we still need to solve this problem.

marvy · on Feb 14, 2015

And now you know more about how to do it :)