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Enable sharing a webpage via Windows' default mail app (e.g. Outlook desktop app)
Edge currently only supports sharing a webpage via the Windows Mail app. The Share-button in Edge does not allow sharing a webpage via Windows' default mail client app. (For example: Microsoft O...
The latest build of Edge (Canary) now supports what I requested, see screenshot below.
Thanks Microsoft.
Hi,
this is something the Outlook team need to do, not Edge team.
Edge browser simply uses the Share functionality that Windows provided to it and Windows lists apps in the Share whose developers enabled this for those apps.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2017/12/04/extend-desktop-application-windows-10-features-using-new-visual-studio-application-packaging-project/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/app-to-app/share-data
this is something the Outlook team need to do, not Edge team.
Edge browser simply uses the Share functionality that Windows provided to it and Windows lists apps in the Share whose developers enabled this for those apps.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2017/12/04/extend-desktop-application-windows-10-features-using-new-visual-studio-application-packaging-project/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/app-to-app/share-data
Thanks for this insight. I will add also this to the Outlook UserVoice, as you suggested.
I would suggest though that the Edge-team could talk to their colleagues "down the hallway" about this, as it would also benefit the user experience in Edge. Do you agree?
I would suggest though that the Edge-team could talk to their colleagues "down the hallway" about this, as it would also benefit the user experience in Edge. Do you agree?