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		gregable on April 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AMP pages displaying your own domain The share button simply calls the browser's share API, for example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/s... > The Navigator.share() method invokes the native sharing mechanism of the device as part of the Web Share API.

username223 on April 18, 2019 [–]

I didn't know the Web Share API existed, but based on the RFC, it looks like yet another Google-driven "standard." I still don't see why it needs to be added to the page.

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