> When you say "intent to implement" what is it you're planning on 
> implementing?

For the initial drop here, we've implemented a way for web apps (or sites if we 
decide to enable this for them, but after talking here and with the team, I 
think restricting this to WebApps is a good idea), to fire WebIntents that will 
be converted to Android Intents. Those intents are fired out to any apps on the 
phone that want them, and the return data from those (if there is any) is 
passed back to the app. Part 2 of this will be updating the synthetic APK's to 
act as receivers for Android intents so that they'll be able to also receive 
intents from the system (whether those intents come from other WebApps or 
Native Apps, there is no difference between WebApps and NativeApps from our 
perspective).

We're holding this to non-release builds for now while just to gain some 
comfort with it, but the intent is to ship it to release builds eventually. 
After talking with finkle a bit, I think our intent will be to ship it enabled 
for WebApps on Android only initially. While the web at large probably needs 
things like this, as you've mentioned this isn't on a standards track yet. 
There are a lot more questions to answer before we enable it there.

- Wes
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