This content originally appeared on Modern Web Development with Chrome and was authored by Paul Kinlan
<p>Big updates for the latest Safari!</p>
<p>I thought that this was a pretty huge announcement, and the opposite of Google which a while ago said that Google Pay Lib is the recommend way to implement payments... I mean, it's not a million miles away, Google Pay is built on top of Payment Request, but it's not PR first.</p>
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<p>Payment Request is now the recommended way to pay implement Apple Pay on the web.</p>
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<p><a href="https://webkit.org/blog/8718/new-webkit-features-in-safari-12-1/">Read full post</a>.</p>
<p>And my favourite feature given my history with Web Intents.</p>
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<h3 id="web-share-api">Web Share API</h3>
<p>The Web Share API adds navigator.share(), a promise-based API developers can use to invoke a native sharing dialog provided the host operating system. This allows users to share text, links, and other content to an arbitrary destination of their choice, such as apps or contacts.</p>
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<p>Now just to get Share Target API and we are on to a winner! :)</p>
This content originally appeared on Modern Web Development with Chrome and was authored by Paul Kinlan