Intent to Experiment: Declarative Link Capturing for PWAs
Alan Cutter
Contact emails
mgi...@chromium.org, alanc...@chromium.org, trev...@chromium.org
Explainer
https://github.com/WICG/sw-launch/blob/master/declarative_link_capturing.md
Specification
None
Summary
New Web App Manifest member to control what happens when the user navigates to a page within scope of an installed web app.
This feature introduces the "capture_links" member, an enumeration allowing the customization of link capturing behaviour, allowing sites to:
- Automatically open a new PWA window when the user clicks a link to their app.
- Have a "single window mode" like mobile apps.
Blink component
Search tags
TAG review
https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/589
TAG review status
In progress
Risks
Interoperability and Compatibility
Very small, since any browser not implementing this will just fall back to the standard behaviour, which is to navigate to links in a browser tab.
This member is also forwards compatible as it can accept a list of behaviours, older browsers will bypass any new ones that are added later.
Gecko: No signal
Edge: Strong positive, this compliments their efforts in specing url_handlers.
WebKit: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Goals for experimentation
Looking for feedback on whether the current behaviours and implementation adequately satisfy real world needs. This experiment is also for web developers to determine whether this additional feature is enough to justify building a PWA over other native app solutions.
Experimental timeline
Start: M90
End: M93
Ongoing technical constraints
None
Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?
Not supported on Android, their window model doesn’t make sense for “new-client”.
Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?
No
Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5734953453092864
Links to previous Intent discussions
Intent to prototype: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/2ZnA1IrSpS8
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