In theory browsers can support any kind of platform-related function, right?
In practice this has proved to be wrong although the reasons vary from lack of standards for the platform feature to support, to security and trust-models models involving other parties than the user and the site connected to. In addition, the concept of "trusted web code" still doesn't exist and personally I doubt that it will be here anytime soon, if ever. Permissions do not address code trustability either. Yet another difficulty is that the browser vendors and "the market" occasionally have diverging interests and priorities, leaving the latter lot in a very unfavorable situation w.r.t. innovation. To avoid TL;DR. A browser can do things the native level cannot but this is equally applicable the other way round so an obvious solution is "burying the hatchet" and rather try to figure out how these great systems could work in concert! Here is a concrete suggestion: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-intents/2015Feb/0000.html Sincerely, Anders Rundgren WebPKI.org
