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Implement Web Share API #358

Closed zcdunn closed 5 years ago

zcdunn commented 6 years ago

- Do you want to request a feature or report a bug? Feature The Web Share API would make it easy for users viewing the site in standalone mode (where the URL is unaccessible) to share a specific article. It can be feature detected so it only affects supporting browsers. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/09/navigator-share

indysigner commented 5 years ago

Hi @zcdunn,

Many thanks for your suggestion! While this is certainly interesting, it still is only being supported in Chrome Android (which make up only a small fraction of our readership), and it’s not even available in Chrome’s desktop versions (only as an experimental feature)... thus, we went for a more old school solution with no iframes or JavaScript required (using Twitter’s and Linkedin’s share URLs), like this:

screenshot 2018-08-28 10 42 12

So, this certainly might be interesting for the future, and once it’s coming to Chrome’s desktop versions (we have a 75%+ user base reading Smashing in a Chrome browser). For now, let me close the issue, though. Thank you! 🙏