Web Intents Support

Overview

Web Intents is an open specification being developed within the W3C process, and AddThis is the easiest way for publishers to implement web intents on their site.

AddThis provides cross-browser web intents support

Web Intents provides an easy way for Google Chrome users to share. But Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari are unable to read native Intent tags. AddThis seamlessly handles intents on your page for non-Chrome users. Just provide webintents: true in your addthis_config object:

addthis_config = {
    //...
    webintents: true
    //...
}

Now you can take advantage of web intents without leaving non-Chrome users behind.

AddThis supports web intents as a service

AddThis can invoke the “share” web intent. To include intents in the sharing menu, just add the “intent_share_url” service to the toolbox*:

<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->
<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style ">
    <a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a>
    <a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a>
    <a class="addthis_button_intent_share_url"></a>
    <a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a>
    ...
</div>
<!-- AddThis Button END -->

*This demo has addthis_config.webintents set to true. Otherwise, a browser without native Web Intents support will simply ignore the field, like so:

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