Web Intents - the future of web apps
This feels like an engineers vision of the web. The two benefits of this over apis are:<p>1) The user gets to choose how to perform a particular activity.<p>2) Services can be found either automatically or by the user searching for services and saving them for later.<p>Don't the majority of users want this taken care of for them? Imagine going to facebook and having to find a service to perform a friend request. That's just an irritation for a benefit that most people don't want(wow I can send an invite using SMS with this service).<p>It's also notable that there's no styling on the examples. How is the UI going to be integrated, are all of the web intents supposed to follow a standard CSS format? How about the amount of space that service takes up on the page?<p>I suspect apis are popular because they're the best fit for sharing functionality on the web. Users want curated, integrated websites, not a set of mix 'n' match components.