Web Intents was an experimental framework for web-based inter-application communication and service discovery.
In the context of the framework an Intent equals an action to be performed by a provider.
[2] Paul Kinlan of Google announced the Web Intents project in December 2010.
In August 2011 Google announced that Chrome would support Web Intents.
[8][9][10] In November 2012, Greg Billock of Google announced that experimental support of Web Intents had been removed from Chrome.