File sharing support in Web Share going to stable!
Congrats to Yaron, @mgiuca, @raymeskhoury, Eric Willigers, and the whole team that made this happens across Sydney and Waterloo.https://twitter.com/petele/status/1135945971718901760 …
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Chromium has an "intent" process that is a public record of votes by a group of senior engineers whose job it is to weigh risk given that we basically can't unship anything ever. You can see that play out for this feature here: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/blink-dev/Web$20Share$20API$20Level$202%7Csort:date/blink-dev/Cr7Jrb9XMgE/3VmPXKSMBgAJ …
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This was an "easy" one because the team had done so much of the required homework to prove that the addition was low-risk, e.g. by getting review from the
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Right, I get it, just trying to grok the amount of buy-in beyond Chrome.
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I'd say "low-ish", but Safari also implemented the Level 1 version of the API and there haven't been howls of discontent (perhaps because it's so heavily requested by developers and users?), so we'll see what happens! https://caniuse.com/#feat=web-share
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