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Presentation API

W3C Editor's Draft 12 February 2025

Abstract

This specification defines an API to enable Web content to access presentation displays and use them for presenting Web content.

Status of This Document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at https://www.w3.org/TR/.

This document was published by the Second Screen Working Group as an Editor's Draft.

Since publication as Candidate Recommendation on 01 June 2017, the Working Group updated the steps to construct a PresentationRequest to ignore a URL with an unsupported scheme, placed further restrictions on how receiving browsing contexts are allowed to navigate themselves, and dropped the definition of the BinaryType enum in favor of the one defined in the HTML specification. Other interfaces defined in this document did not change other than to adjust to WebIDL updates. Various clarifications and editorial updates were also made. See the list of changes for details.

No feature has been identified as being at risk.

The Second Screen Working Group will refine the test suite for the Presentation API during the Candidate Recommendation period and update the preliminary implementation report. For this specification to advance to Proposed Recommendation, two independent, interoperable implementations of each feature must be demonstrated, as detailed in the Candidate Recommendation exit criteria section.

Publication as an Editor's Draft does not imply endorsement by W3C and its Members.

This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.

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This document is governed by the 03 November 2023 W3C Process Document.

1. Introduction

This section is non-normative.

The Presentation API aims to make presentation displays such as projectors, attached monitors, and network-connected TVs available to the Web. It takes into account displays that are attached using wired (HDMI, DVI, or similar) and wireless technologies (Miracast, Chromecast, DLNA, AirPlay, or similar).

Devices with limited screen size lack the ability to show Web content to a larger audience: a group of colleagues in a conference room, or friends and family at home, for example. Web content shown on a larger presentation display has greater perceived quality, legibility, and impact.

At its core, the Presentation API enables a controller page to show a presentation page on a presentation display and exchange messages with it. How the presentation page is transmitted to the display and how messages are exchanged between it and the controller page are left to the implementation; this allows the use of a wide variety of display technologies.

For example, if the presentation display is connected by HDMI or Miracast, which only allow audio and video to be transmitted, the user agent (UA) hosting the controller will also render the presentation. It then uses the operating system to send the resulting graphical and audio output to the presentation display. We refer to this situation as the 1-UA mode implementation of the Presentation API. The only requirements are that the user agent is able to send graphics and audio from rendering the presentation to the presentation display, and exchange messages internally between the controller and presentation pages.

If the presentation display is able to render HTML natively and communicate with the controller via a network, the user agent hosting the controller does not need to render the presentation. Instead, the user agent acts as a proxy that requests the presentation display to load and render the presentation page itself. Message exchange is done over a network connection between the user agent and the presentation display. We refer to this situation as the 2-UA mode implementation of the Presentation API.

The Presentation API is intended to be used with user agents that attach to presentation displays in 1-UA mode, 2-UA mode, and possibly other means not listed above. To improve interoperability between user agents and presentation displays, standardization of network communication between browsers and displays is being considered in the Second Screen Community Group.

2. Use cases and requirements

This section is non-normative.

Use cases and requirements are captured in a separate Presentation API Use Cases and Requirements document.

3. Conformance

As well as sections marked as non-normative, all authoring guidelines, diagrams, examples, and notes in this specification are non-normative. Everything else in this specification is normative.

The key words MAY, MUST, MUST NOT, OPTIONAL, SHOULD, and SHOULD NOT in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

Requirements phrased in the imperative as part of algorithms (such as "strip any leading space characters" or "return false and terminate these steps") are to be interpreted with the meaning of the key word ("MUST", "SHOULD", "MAY", etc.) used in introducing the algorithm.

Conformance requirements phrased as algorithms or specific steps may be implemented in any manner, so long as the result is equivalent. (In particular, the algorithms defined in this specification are intended to be easy to follow, and not intended to be performant.)

3.1 Conformance classes

This specification describes the conformance criteria for two classes of user agents.

Controlling user agent: Web browsers that conform to the specifications of a controlling user agent must be able to start and control presentations by providing a controlling browsing context as described in this specification. This context implements the Presentation, PresentationAvailability, PresentationConnection, PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent, PresentationConnectionCloseEvent, and PresentationRequest interfaces.
Receiving user agent: Web browsers that conform to the specifications of a receiving user agent must be able to render presentations by providing a receiving browsing context as described in this specification. This context implements the Presentation, PresentationConnection, PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent, PresentationConnectionCloseEvent, PresentationConnectionList, and PresentationReceiver interfaces.

One user agent may act both as a controlling user agent and as a receiving user agent, if it provides both browsing contexts and implements all of their required interfaces. This can happen when the same user agent is able to host the controlling browsing context and the receiving browsing context for a presentation, as in the 1-UA mode implementation of the API.

Conformance requirements phrased against a user agent apply either to a controlling user agent, a receiving user agent or to both classes, depending on the context.

4. Terminology

The terms JavaScript realm and current realm are used as defined in [ECMASCRIPT]. The terms resolved and rejected in the context of Promise objects are used as defined in [ECMASCRIPT].

The terms Accept-Language and HTTP authentication are used as defined in [RFC9110].

The term cookie store is used as defined in [RFC6265].

The term UUID is used as defined in [RFC4122].

The term DIAL is used as defined in [DIAL].

The term reload a document refers to steps run when the reload() method gets called in [HTML].

The term local storage area refers to the storage areas exposed by the localStorage attribute, and the term session storage area refers to the storage areas exposed by the sessionStorage attribute in [HTML].

This specification references terms exported by other specifications, see B.2 Terms defined by reference. It also references the following internal concepts from other specifications:

parse a url, defined in HTML [HTML]
creating a new browsing context, defined in HTML [HTML]
session history, defined in HTML [HTML]
allowed to navigate, defined in HTML [HTML]
navigating to a fragment identifier, defined in HTML [HTML]
unload a document, defined in HTML [HTML]
database, defined in Indexed Database API [INDEXEDDB]

5. Examples

This section is non-normative.

This section shows example codes that highlight the usage of main features of the Presentation API. In these examples, controller.html implements the controller and presentation.html implements the presentation. Both pages are served from the domain https://example.org (https://example.org/controller.html and https://example.org/presentation.html). These examples assume that the controlling page is managing one presentation at a time. Please refer to the comments in the code examples for further details.

5.1 Monitoring availability of presentation displays

This code renders a button that is visible when there is at least one compatible presentation display that can present https://example.com/presentation.html or https://example.net/alternate.html.

Monitoring of display availability is done by first creating a PresentationRequest with the URLs you want to present, then calling getAvailability to obtain a PresentationAvailability object whose change event will fire when presentation availability changes state.

Example 1

<!-- controller.html -->
<button id="presentBtn" style="display: none;">Present</button>
<script>
  // The Present button is visible if at least one presentation display is available
  var presentBtn = document.getElementById("presentBtn");
  // It is also possible to use relative presentation URL e.g. "presentation.html"
  var presUrls = ["https://example.com/presentation.html",
                  "https://example.net/alternate.html"];
  // show or hide present button depending on display availability
  var handleAvailabilityChange = function(available) {
    presentBtn.style.display = available ? "inline" : "none";
  };
  // Promise is resolved as soon as the presentation display availability is
  // known.
  var request = new PresentationRequest(presUrls);
  request.getAvailability().then(function(availability) {
    // availability.value may be kept up-to-date by the controlling UA as long
    // as the availability object is alive. It is advised for the Web developers
    // to discard the object as soon as it's not needed.
    handleAvailabilityChange(availability.value);
    availability.onchange = function() { handleAvailabilityChange(this.value); };
  }).catch(function() {
    // Availability monitoring is not supported by the platform, so discovery of
    // presentation displays will happen only after request.start() is called.
    // Pretend the devices are available for simplicity; or, one could implement
    // a third state for the button.
    handleAvailabilityChange(true);
  });
</script>

5.2 Starting a new presentation

When the user clicks presentBtn, this code requests presentation of one of the URLs in the PresentationRequest. When start is called, the browser typically shows a dialog that allows the user to select one of the compatible displays that are available. The first URL in the PresentationRequest that is compatible with the chosen display will be presented on that display.

The start method resolves with a PresentationConnection object that is used to track the state of the presentation, and exchange messages with the presentation page once it's loaded on the display.

Example 2

<!-- controller.html -->
<script>
  presentBtn.onclick = function () {
    // Start new presentation.
    request.start()
      // The connection to the presentation will be passed to setConnection on
      // success.
      .then(setConnection);
      // Otherwise, the user canceled the selection dialog or no screens were
      // found.
  };
</script>

5.3 Reconnecting to an existing presentation

The presentation continues to run even after the original page that started the presentation closes its PresentationConnection, navigates, or is closed. Another page can use the id on the PresentationConnection to reconnect to an existing presentation and resume control of it. This is only guaranteed to work from the same browser that started the presentation.

Example 3

<!-- controller.html -->
<button id="reconnectBtn" style="display: none;">Reconnect</button>
<script>
  var reconnect = function () {
    // read presId from localStorage if exists
    var presId = localStorage["presId"];
    // presId is mandatory when reconnecting to a presentation.
    if (!!presId) {
      request.reconnect(presId)
        // The new connection to the presentation will be passed to
        // setConnection on success.
        .then(setConnection);
        // No connection found for presUrl and presId, or an error occurred.
    }
  };
  // On navigation of the controller, reconnect automatically.
  document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", reconnect);
  // Or allow manual reconnection.
  const reconnectBtn = document.querySelector("#reconnectBtn");
  reconnectBtn.onclick = reconnect;
</script>

5.4 Starting a presentation by the controlling user agent

Some browsers have a way for users to start a presentation without interacting directly with the controlling page. Controlling pages can opt into this behavior by setting the defaultRequest property on navigator.presentation, and listening for a connectionavailable event that is fired when a presentation is started this way. The PresentationConnection passed with the event behaves the same as if the page had called start.

Example 4

<!-- controller.html -->
<!-- Setting presentation.defaultRequest allows the page to specify the
     PresentationRequest to use when the controlling UA initiates a
     presentation. -->
<script>
  navigator.presentation.defaultRequest = new PresentationRequest(presUrls);
  navigator.presentation.defaultRequest.onconnectionavailable = function(evt) {
    setConnection(evt.connection);
  };
</script>

5.5 Monitoring the connection state and exchanging data

Once a presentation has started, the returned PresentationConnection is used to monitor its state and exchange messages with it. Typically the user will be given the choice to disconnect from or terminate the presentation from the controlling page.

Since the the controlling page may connect to and disconnect from multiple presentations during its lifetime, it's helpful to keep track of the current PresentationConnection and its state. Messages can only be sent and received on connections in a connected state.

Example 5

<!-- controller.html -->
<button id="disconnectBtn" style="display: none;">Disconnect</button>
<button id="stopBtn" style="display: none;">Stop</button>
<script>
  let connection;

  // The Disconnect and Stop buttons are visible if there is a connected presentation
  const stopBtn = document.querySelector("#stopBtn");
  const disconnectBtn = document.querySelector("#disconnectBtn");

  stopBtn.onclick = _ => {
    connection && connection.terminate();
  };

  disconnectBtn.onclick = _ => {
    connection && connection.close();
  };

  function setConnection(newConnection) {
    // Disconnect from existing presentation, if not attempting to reconnect
    if (connection && connection != newConnection && connection.state != 'closed') {
      connection.onclose = undefined;
      connection.close();
    }

    // Set the new connection and save the presentation ID
    connection = newConnection;
    localStorage["presId"] = connection.id;

    function showConnectedUI() {
      // Allow the user to disconnect from or terminate the presentation
      stopBtn.style.display = "inline";
      disconnectBtn.style.display = "inline";
      reconnectBtn.style.display = "none";
    }

    function showDisconnectedUI() {
      disconnectBtn.style.display = "none";
      stopBtn.style.display = "none";
      reconnectBtn.style.display = localStorage["presId"] ? "inline" : "none";
    }

    // Monitor the connection state
    connection.onconnect = _ => {
      showConnectedUI();

      // Register message handler
      connection.onmessage = message => {
        console.log(`Received message: ${message.data}`);
      };

      // Send initial message to presentation page
      connection.send("Say hello");
    };

    connection.onclose = _ => {
      connection = null;
      showDisconnectedUI();
    };

    connection.onterminate = _ => {
      // Remove presId from localStorage if exists
      delete localStorage["presId"];
      connection = null;
      showDisconnectedUI();
    };
  };
</script>

5.6 Listening for incoming presentation connections

This code runs on the presented page (https://example.org/presentation.html). Presentations may be connected to from multiple controlling pages, so it's important that the presented page listen for incoming connections on the connectionList object.

Example 6

<!-- presentation.html -->
<script>
  var addConnection = function(connection) {
    connection.onmessage = function (message) {
      if (message.data == "Say hello")
        connection.send("hello");
    };
  };

  navigator.presentation.receiver.connectionList.then(function (list) {
    list.connections.map(function (connection) {
      addConnection(connection);
    });
    list.onconnectionavailable = function (evt) {
      addConnection(evt.connection);
    };
  });
</script>

5.7 Passing locale information with a message

Example 7

<!-- controller.html -->
<script>
  connection.send('{"string": "你好，世界!", "lang": "zh-CN"}');
  connection.send('{"string": "こんにちは、世界!", "lang": "ja"}');
  connection.send('{"string": "안녕하세요, 세계!", "lang": "ko"}');
  connection.send('{"string": "Hello, world!", "lang": "en-US"}');
</script>

<!-- presentation.html -->
<script>
  connection.onmessage = function (message) {
    var messageObj = JSON.parse(message.data);
    var spanElt = document.createElement("SPAN");
    spanElt.lang = messageObj.lang;
    spanElt.textContent = messageObj.string;
    document.body.appendChild(spanElt);
  };
</script>

5.8 Creating a second presentation from the same controlling page

It's possible for a controlling page to start and control two independent presentations on two different presentation displays. This code shows how a second presentation can be added to the first one in the examples above.

Example 8

<!-- controller.html -->
<!-- The same controlling page can create and manage multiple presentations,
  by calling start() multiple times. -->
<button id="secondPresentBtn" style="display: none;">Present Again</button>
<script>
  var secondPresentBtn = document.getElementById("secondPresentBtn");
  var secondPresUrl = "https://example.com/second-presentation.html";
  var secondRequest = new PresentationRequest(secondPresUrl);
  // For simplicity, the logic to handle screen availability for secondRequest
  // and update the status of secondPresentBtn is omitted.
  secondPresentBtn.onclick = function () {
  // Start new presentation, likely on a different screen than the original
  // request.
    secondRequest.start().then(setSecondConnection);
  };
  function setSecondConnection(newConnection) {
    // Logic to handle messages to/from second-presentation.html.
  };
</script>

6. API

6.1 Common idioms

A presentation display refers to a graphical and/or audio output device available to the user agent via an implementation specific connection technology.

A presentation connection is an object relating a controlling browsing context to its receiving browsing context and enables two-way-messaging between them. Each presentation connection has a presentation connection state, a unique presentation identifier to distinguish it from other presentations, and a presentation URL that is a URL used to create or reconnect to the presentation. A valid presentation identifier consists of alphanumeric ASCII characters only and is at least 16 characters long.

Some presentation displays may only be able to display a subset of Web content because of functional, security or hardware limitations. Examples are set-top boxes, smart TVs, or networked speakers capable of rendering only audio. We say that such a display is an available presentation display for a presentation URL if the controlling user agent can reasonably guarantee that presentation of the URL on that display will succeed.

A controlling browsing context (or controller for short) is a browsing context that has connected to a presentation by calling start or reconnect, or received a presentation connection via a connectionavailable event. In algorithms for PresentationRequest, the controlling browsing context is the browsing context whose JavaScript realm was used to construct the PresentationRequest.

The receiving browsing context (or presentation for short) is the browsing context responsible for rendering to a presentation display. A receiving browsing context can reside in the same user agent as the controlling browsing context or a different one. A receiving browsing context is created by following the steps to create a receiving browsing context.

In a procedure, the destination browsing context is the receiving browsing context when the procedure is initiated at the controlling browsing context, or the controlling browsing context if it is initiated at the receiving browsing context.

The set of controlled presentations, initially empty, contains the presentation connections created by the controlling browsing contexts for the controlling user agent (or a specific user profile within that user agent). The set of controlled presentations is represented by a list of PresentationConnection objects that represent the underlying presentation connections. Several PresentationConnection objects may share the same presentation URL and presentation identifier in that set, but there can be only one PresentationConnection with a specific presentation URL and presentation identifier for a given controlling browsing context.

The set of presentation controllers, initially empty, contains the presentation connections created by a receiving browsing context for the receiving user agent. The set of presentation controllers is represented by a list of PresentationConnection objects that represent the underlying presentation connections. All presentation connections in this set share the same presentation URL and presentation identifier.

In a receiving browsing context, the presentation controllers monitor, initially set to null, exposes the current set of presentation controllers to the receiving application. The presentation controllers monitor is represented by a PresentationConnectionList.

In a receiving browsing context, the presentation controllers promise, which is initially set to null, provides the presentation controllers monitor once the initial presentation connection is established. The presentation controllers promise is represented by a Promise that resolves with the presentation controllers monitor.

In a controlling browsing context, the default presentation request, which is initially set to null, represents the request to use when the user wishes to initiate a presentation connection from the browser chrome.

The task source for the tasks mentioned in this specification is the presentation task source.

When an algorithm queues a Presentation API task T, the user agent MUST queue a global task T on the presentation task source using the global object of the current realm.

Unless otherwise specified, the JavaScript realm for script objects constructed by algorithm steps is the current realm.

6.2 Interface `Presentation`

WebIDLpartial interface Navigator {
  [SecureContext, SameObject] readonly attribute Presentation presentation;
};

[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface Presentation {
};

The presentation attribute is used to retrieve an instance of the Presentation interface. It MUST return the Presentation instance.

6.2.1 Controlling user agent

Controlling user agents MUST implement the following partial interface:

WebIDLpartial interface Presentation {
  attribute PresentationRequest? defaultRequest;
};

The defaultRequest attribute MUST return the default presentation request if any, null otherwise. On setting, the default presentation request MUST be set to the new value.

The controlling user agent SHOULD initiate presentation using the default presentation request only when the user has expressed an intention to do so via a user gesture, for example by clicking a button in the browser chrome.

To initiate presentation using the default presentation request, the controlling user agent MUST follow the steps to start a presentation from a default presentation request.

Support for initiating a presentation using the default presentation request is OPTIONAL.

Note

If a controlling user agent does not support starting a presentation from a default presentation request, that user agent should ignore any value set for defaultRequest.

6.2.2 Receiving user agent

Receiving user agents MUST implement the following partial interface:

WebIDLpartial interface Presentation {
  readonly attribute PresentationReceiver? receiver;
};

The receiver attribute MUST return the PresentationReceiver instance associated with the receiving browsing context and created by the receiving user agent when the receiving browsing context is created. In any other browsing context (including child navigables of the receiving browsing context) it MUST return null.

Note

Web developers can use navigator.presentation.receiver to detect when a document is loaded as a presentation.

6.3 Interface `PresentationRequest`

WebIDL[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface PresentationRequest : EventTarget {
  constructor(USVString url);
  constructor(sequence<USVString> urls);
  Promise<PresentationConnection> start();
  Promise<PresentationConnection> reconnect(USVString presentationId);
  Promise<PresentationAvailability> getAvailability();

  attribute EventHandler onconnectionavailable;
};

A PresentationRequest object is associated with a request to initiate or reconnect to a presentation made by a controlling browsing context. The PresentationRequest object MUST be implemented in a controlling browsing context provided by a controlling user agent.

When a PresentationRequest is constructed, the given urls MUST be used as the list of presentation request URLs which are each a possible presentation URL for the PresentationRequest instance.

6.3.1 Constructing a `PresentationRequest`

When the PresentationRequest constructor is called, the controlling user agent MUST run these steps:

Input: url or urls, the presentation request URLs
Output: A new PresentationRequest object

If the document object's active sandboxing flag set has the sandboxed presentation browsing context flag set, then throw a SecurityError and abort these steps.
If urls is an empty sequence, then throw a NotSupportedError and abort all remaining steps.
If a single url was provided, let urls be a one item array containing url.
Let presentationUrls be an empty list of URLs.
For each URL U in urls:
1. Let A be an absolute URL that is the result of parsing U relative to the API base URL specified by the current settings object.
2. If the parse a URL algorithm failed, then throw a SyntaxError exception and abort all remaining steps.
3. If A's scheme is supported by the controlling user agent, add A to presentationUrls.
If presentationUrls is an empty list, then throw a NotSupportedError and abort all remaining steps.
If any member of presentationUrls is not a potentially trustworthy URL, then throw a SecurityError and abort these steps.
Construct a new PresentationRequest object with presentationUrls as its presentation request URLs and return it.

6.3.2 Selecting a presentation display

When the start method is called, the user agent MUST run the following steps to select a presentation display.

Input: presentationRequest, the PresentationRequest object that received the call to start
Output: A new Promise

If the document's active window does not have transient activation, return a Promise rejected with an InvalidAccessError exception and abort these steps.
Let topContext be the top-level browsing context of the controlling browsing context.
If there is already an unsettled Promise from a previous call to start in topContext or any browsing context in the descendant navigables of topContext, return a new Promise rejected with an OperationError exception and abort all remaining steps.
Let P be a new Promise.
Return P, but continue running these steps in parallel.
If the user agent is not monitoring the list of available presentation displays, run the steps to monitor the list of available presentation displays in parallel.
Let presentationUrls be the presentation request URLs of presentationRequest.
Request user permission for the use of a presentation display and selection of one presentation display.
If either of the following is true:
1. The list of available presentation displays is empty and will remain so before the request for user permission is completed.
2. No member in the list of available presentation displays is an available presentation display for any member of presentationUrls.
Then run the following steps:
1. Queue a Presentation API task to reject P with a NotFoundError exception.
2. Abort all remaining steps.
If the user denies permission to use a display, queue a Presentation API task to reject P with an NotAllowedError exception, and abort all remaining steps.
Otherwise, the user grants permission to use a display; let D be that display.
Run the steps to start a presentation connection with presentationRequest, D, and P.

Note

The details of implementing the permission request and display selection are left to the user agent; for example it may show the user a dialog and allow the user to select an available display (granting permission), or cancel the selection (denying permission). Implementers are encouraged to show the user whether an available display is currently in use, to facilitate presentations that can make use of multiple displays.

Note

Receiving user agents are encouraged to advertise a user friendly name for the presentation display, e.g. "Living Room TV", to assist the user in selecting the intended display. Implementers of receiving user agents are also encouraged to advertise the locale and intended text direction of the user friendly name. Implementers of controlling user agents are encouraged to render a user friendly name using its locale and text direction when they are known.

6.3.3 Starting a presentation from a default presentation request

When the user expresses an intent to start presentation of a document on a presentation display using the browser chrome (via a dedicated button, user gesture, or other signal), that user agent MUST run the following steps to start a presentation from a default presentation request. If no default presentation request is set on the document, these steps MUST not be run.

Input: W, the document on which the user has expressed an intent to start presentation; presentationRequest, the non-null value of navigator.presentation.defaultRequest set on W; D, the presentation display that is the target for presentation

Run the following steps in parallel.
Let presentationUrls be the presentation request URLs of presentationRequest.
If there is no presentation request URL for presentationRequest for which D is an available presentation display, then abort these steps.
Run the steps to start a presentation connection with presentationRequest and D.

Note

When starting a presentation from a default presentation request, a controlling user agent may allow the user to request presentation and choose the intended presentation display with the same user gesture. For example, the browser chrome could allow the user to pick a display from a menu, or allow the user to tap on an Near Field Communications (NFC) enabled display.

6.3.4 Starting a presentation connection

When the user agent is to start a presentation connection, it MUST run the following steps:

Input: presentationRequest, the PresentationRequest that is used to start the presentation connection; D, the selected presentation display; P, an optional Promise that will be resolved with a new presentation connection

Assert: this is running in parallel.
Let I be a new valid presentation identifier unique among all presentation identifiers for known presentation connections in the set of controlled presentations. To avoid fingerprinting, implementations SHOULD set the presentation identifier to a UUID generated by following forms 4.4 or 4.5 of [rfc4122].
Create a new PresentationConnection S.
Set the presentation identifier of S to I.
Let presentationUrls be the presentation request URLs of presentationRequest.
Set the presentation URL for S to the first presentationUrl in presentationUrls for which there exists an entry (presentationUrl, D) in the list of available presentation displays.
Set the presentation connection state of S to connecting.
Add S to the set of controlled presentations.
If P is provided, queue a Presentation API task to resolve P with S.
Queue a Presentation API task to fire an event named connectionavailable, that uses the PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent interface, with the connection attribute initialized to S, at presentationRequest. The event must not bubble and must not be cancelable.
Let U be the user agent connected to D.
If the next step fails, abort all remaining steps and close the presentation connection S with error as closeReason, and a human readable message describing the failure as closeMessage.
Using an implementation specific mechanism, tell U to create a receiving browsing context with D, presentationUrl, and I as parameters.
Establish a presentation connection with S.

Note

The presentationUrl should name a resource accessible to the local or a remote user agent. This specification defines behavior for presentationUrl using the http or https schemes; behavior for other schemes is not defined by this specification.

6.3.5 Reconnecting to a presentation

When the reconnect method is called, the user agent MUST run the following steps to reconnect to a presentation:

Input: presentationRequest, the PresentationRequest object that reconnect was called on; presentationId, a valid presentation identifier
Output: P, a new Promise

Let P be a new Promise.
Return P, but continue running these steps in parallel.
Search the set of controlled presentations for a PresentationConnection that meets the following criteria:
- Its controlling browsing context is the current browsing context
- Its presentation connection state is not terminated
- Its presentation URL is equal to one of the presentation request URLs of presentationRequest
- Its presentation identifier is equal to presentationId
If such a PresentationConnection exists, run the following steps:
1. Let existingConnection be that PresentationConnection.
2. Queue a Presentation API task to resolve P with existingConnection.
3. If the presentation connection state of existingConnection is connecting or connected, then abort all remaining steps.
4. Set the presentation connection state of existingConnection to connecting.
5. Establish a presentation connection with existingConnection.
6. Abort all remaining steps.
Search the set of controlled presentations for the first PresentationConnection that meets the following criteria:
- Its controlling browsing context is not the current browsing context
- Its presentation connection state is not terminated
- Its presentation URL is equal to one of the presentation request URLs of presentationRequest
- Its presentation identifier is equal to presentationId
If such a PresentationConnection exists, run the following steps:
1. Let existingConnection be that PresentationConnection.
2. Create a new PresentationConnection newConnection.
3. Set the presentation identifier of newConnection to presentationId.
4. Set the presentation URL of newConnection to the presentation URL of existingConnection.
5. Set the presentation connection state of newConnection to connecting.
6. Add newConnection to the set of controlled presentations.
7. Queue a Presentation API task to resolve P with newConnection.
8. Queue a Presentation API task to fire an event named connectionavailable, that uses the PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent interface, with the connection attribute initialized to newConnection, at presentationRequest. The event must not bubble and must not be cancelable.
9. Establish a presentation connection with newConnection.
10. Abort all remaining steps.
Queue a Presentation API task to reject P with a NotFoundError exception.

6.3.6 Event Handlers

The following are the event handlers (and their corresponding event handler event types) that must be supported, as event handler IDL attributes, by objects implementing the PresentationRequest interface:

Event handler	Event handler event type
`onconnectionavailable`	`connectionavailable`

6.4 Interface `PresentationAvailability`

WebIDL[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface PresentationAvailability : EventTarget {
  readonly attribute boolean value;

  attribute EventHandler onchange;
};

A PresentationAvailability object exposes the presentation display availability for a presentation request. The presentation display availability for a PresentationRequest stores whether there is currently any available presentation display for at least one of the presentation request URLs of the request.

The presentation display availability for a presentation request is eligible for garbage collection when no ECMASCript code can observe the PresentationAvailability object.

If the controlling user agent can monitor the list of available presentation displays in the background (without a pending request to start), the PresentationAvailability object MUST be implemented in a controlling browsing context.

The value attribute MUST return the last value it was set to. The value is initialized and updated by the monitor the list of available presentation displays algorithm.

The onchange attribute is an event handler whose corresponding event handler event type is change.

6.4.1 The set of presentation availability objects

The user agent MUST keep track of the set of presentation availability objects created by the getAvailability method. The set of presentation availability objects is represented as a set of tuples (A, availabilityUrls), initially empty, where:

A is a live PresentationAvailability object.
availabilityUrls is the list of presentation request URLs for the PresentationRequest when getAvailability was called on it to create A.

6.4.2 The list of available presentation displays

The user agent MUST keep a list of available presentation displays. The list of available presentation displays is represented by a list of tuples (availabilityUrl, display). An entry in this list means that display is currently an available presentation display for availabilityUrl. This list of presentation displays may be used for starting new presentations, and is populated based on an implementation specific discovery mechanism. It is set to the most recent result of the algorithm to monitor the list of available presentation displays.

While the set of presentation availability objects is not empty, the user agent MAY monitor the list of available presentation displays continuously, so that pages can use the value property of a PresentationAvailability object to offer presentation only when there are available displays. However, the user agent may not support continuous availability monitoring in the background; for example, because of platform or power consumption restrictions. In this case the Promise returned by getAvailability is rejected, and the algorithm to monitor the list of available presentation displays will only run as part of the select a presentation display algorithm.

When the set of presentation availability objects is empty (that is, there are no availabilityUrls being monitored), user agents SHOULD NOT monitor the list of available presentation displays to satisfy the power saving non-functional requirement. To further save power, the user agent MAY also keep track of whether a page holding a PresentationAvailability object is in the foreground. Using this information, implementation specific discovery of presentation displays can be resumed or suspended.

6.4.3 Getting the presentation displays availability information

When the getAvailability method is called, the user agent MUST run the following steps:

Input: presentationRequest, the PresentationRequest object that received the call to getAvailability
Output: A new Promise

Let P be a new Promise constructed in the JavaScript realm of presentationRequest.
Return P, but continue running these steps in parallel.
If the user agent is unable to continuously monitor the list of available presentation displays in the background, but can later find presentation displays in order to start a connection, then:
1. Queue a Presentation API task to reject P with a NotSupportedError exception.
2. Abort all the remaining steps.
If the presentation display availability for presentationRequest is not null, then:
1. Queue a Presentation API task to resolve P with the request's presentation display availability.
2. Abort all the remaining steps.
Set the presentation display availability for presentationRequest to a newly created PresentationAvailability object constructed in the JavaScript realm of presentationRequest, and let A be that object.
Create a tuple (A, presentationUrls) and add it to the set of presentation availability objects.
Run the algorithm to monitor the list of available presentation displays.
Note
The monitoring algorithm must be run at least one more time after the previous step to pick up the tuple that was added to the set of presentation availability objects.
Queue a Presentation API task to resolve P with A.

6.4.4 Monitoring the list of available presentation displays

If the set of presentation availability objects is non-empty, or there is a pending request to select a presentation display, the user agent MUST monitor the list of available presentation displays by running the following steps:

Assert: this is running in parallel.
Let availabilitySet be a shallow copy of the set of presentation availability objects.
If there is a pending request to select a presentation display for a PresentationRequest and if the PresentationRequest's presentation display availability is null, then run the following substeps:
1. Let A be a newly created PresentationAvailability object.
2. Create a tuple (A, presentationUrls) where presentationUrls is the PresentationRequest's presentation request URLs and add it to availabilitySet.
Let newDisplays be an empty list.
If the user agent is unable to retrieve presentation displays (e.g., because the user has disabled this capability), then skip the following step.
Retrieve presentation displays (using an implementation specific mechanism) and set newDisplays to this list.
Set the list of available presentation displays to the empty list.
For each member (A, availabilityUrls) of availabilitySet, run the following steps:
1. Set previousAvailability to the value of A's value property.
2. Let newAvailability be false.
3. For each availabilityUrl in availabilityUrls, run the following step:
  1. For each display in newDisplays, if display is an available presentation display for availabilityUrl, then run the following steps:
    1. Insert a tuple (availabilityUrl, display) into the list of available presentation displays, if no identical tuple already exists.
    2. Set newAvailability to true.
4. If A's value property has not yet been initialized, then set A's value property to newAvailability and skip the following step.
5. If previousAvailability is not equal to newAvailability, then queue a Presentation API task to run the following steps:
  1. Set A's value property to newAvailability.
  2. Fire an event named change at A.

Note

The controlling user agent may choose how often to monitor the list of available presentation displays, including grouping requests from start and getAvailability, and aggregating them across browsing contexts.

When a presentation display availability object is eligible for garbage collection, the user agent SHOULD run the following steps:

Let A be the newly deceased PresentationAvailability object
Find and remove any entry (A, availabilityUrl) in the set of presentation availability objects.
If the set of presentation availability objects is now empty and there is no pending request to select a presentation display, cancel any pending task to monitor the list of available presentation displays for power saving purposes, and set the list of available presentation displays to the empty list.

Note

The mechanism used to monitor presentation displays availability and determine the compatibility of a presentation display with a given URL is left to the user agent.

6.4.5 Interface `PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent`

WebIDL[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent : Event {
  constructor(DOMString type, PresentationConnectionAvailableEventInit eventInitDict);
  [SameObject] readonly attribute PresentationConnection connection;
};

dictionary PresentationConnectionAvailableEventInit : EventInit {
  required PresentationConnection connection;
};

A controlling user agent fires an event named connectionavailable on a PresentationRequest when a connection associated with the object is created. It is fired at the PresentationRequest instance, using the PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent interface, with the connection attribute set to the PresentationConnection object that was created. The event is fired for each connection that is created for the controller, either by the controller calling start or reconnect, or by the controlling user agent creating a connection on the controller's behalf via defaultRequest.

A receiving user agent fires an event named connectionavailable on a PresentationReceiver when an incoming connection is created. It is fired at the presentation controllers monitor, using the PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent interface, with the connection attribute set to the PresentationConnection object that was created. The event is fired for all connections that are created when monitoring incoming presentation connections.

The connection attribute MUST return the value it was set to when the PresentationConnection object was created.

When the PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent constructor is called, the user agent MUST construct a new PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent object with its connection attribute set to the connection member of the PresentationConnectionAvailableEventInit object passed to the constructor.

6.5 Interface `PresentationConnection`

Each presentation connection is represented by a PresentationConnection object. Both the controlling user agent and receiving user agent MUST implement PresentationConnection.

WebIDLenum PresentationConnectionState { "connecting", "connected", "closed", "terminated" };

[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface PresentationConnection : EventTarget {
  readonly attribute USVString id;
  readonly attribute USVString url;
  readonly attribute PresentationConnectionState state;
  undefined close();
  undefined terminate();
  attribute EventHandler onconnect;
  attribute EventHandler onclose;
  attribute EventHandler onterminate;

  // Communication
  attribute BinaryType binaryType;
  attribute EventHandler onmessage;
  undefined send (DOMString message);
  undefined send (Blob data);
  undefined send (ArrayBuffer data);
  undefined send (ArrayBufferView data);
};

The id attribute specifies the presentation connection's presentation identifier.

The url attribute specifies the presentation connection's presentation URL.

The state attribute represents the presentation connection's current state. It can take one of the values of PresentationConnectionState depending on the connection state:

connecting means that the user agent is attempting to establish a presentation connection with the destination browsing context. This is the initial state when a PresentationConnection object is created.
connected means that the presentation connection is established and communication is possible.
closed means that the presentation connection has been closed, or could not be opened. It may be re-opened through a call to reconnect. No communication is possible.
terminated means that the receiving browsing context has been terminated. Any presentation connection to that presentation is also terminated and cannot be re-opened. No communication is possible.

Note

A connected state does not mean that sending or receiving messages will succeed, as the communication channel may be abruptly closed at any time. Applications that wish to detect such situations as soon as possible should implement their own keep-alive mechanism.

When the close method is called on a PresentationConnection S, the user agent MUST start closing the presentation connection S with closed as closeReason and an empty message as closeMessage.

When the terminate method is called on a PresentationConnection S in a controlling browsing context, the user agent MUST run the algorithm to terminate a presentation in a controlling browsing context using S.

When the terminate method is called on a PresentationConnection S in a receiving browsing context, the user agent MUST run the algorithm to terminate a presentation in a receiving browsing context using S.

The binaryType attribute can take one of the values of BinaryType. When a PresentationConnection object is created, its binaryType attribute MUST be set to the string "arraybuffer". On getting, it MUST return the last value it was set to. On setting, the user agent MUST set the attribute to the new value.

Note

The binaryType attribute allows authors to control how binary data is exposed to scripts. By setting the attribute to "blob", binary data is returned in Blob form; by setting it to "arraybuffer", it is returned in ArrayBuffer form. The attribute defaults to "arraybuffer". This attribute has no effect on data sent in a string form.

When the send method is called on a PresentationConnection S, the user agent MUST run the algorithm to send a message through S.

When a PresentationConnection object S is discarded (because the document owning it is navigating or is closed) while the presentation connection state of S is connecting or connected, the user agent MUST start closing the presentation connection S with wentaway as closeReason and an empty closeMessage.

If the user agent receives a signal from the destination browsing context that a PresentationConnection S is to be closed, it MUST close the presentation connection S with closed or wentaway as closeReason and an empty closeMessage.

6.5.1 Establishing a presentation connection

When the user agent is to establish a presentation connection using a presentation connection, it MUST run the following steps:

Input: presentationConnection, the PresentationConnection object that is to be connected

Assert: this is running in parallel.
If the presentation connection state of presentationConnection is not connecting, then abort all remaining steps.
Request connection of presentationConnection to the receiving browsing context. The presentation identifier of presentationConnection MUST be sent with this request.
If connection completes successfully, queue a Presentation API task to run the following steps:
1. Set the presentation connection state of presentationConnection to connected.
2. Fire an event named connect at presentationConnection.
If the connection cannot be completed, close the presentation connection S with error as closeReason, and a human readable message describing the failure as closeMessage.

Note

The mechanism that is used to present on the remote display and connect the controlling browsing context with the presented document is an implementation choice of the user agent. The connection must provide a two-way messaging abstraction capable of carrying DOMString and binary payloads in a reliable and in-order fashion as described in the Send a Message and Receive a Message steps below.

6.5.2 Sending a message through `PresentationConnection`

Note

No specific transport for the connection between the controlling browsing context and the receiving browsing context is mandated, except that for multiple calls to send it has to be ensured that messages are delivered to the other end reliably and in sequence. The transport should function equivalently to an RTCDataChannel in reliable mode.

Let presentation message data be the payload data to be transmitted between two browsing contexts. Let presentation message type be the type of that data, one of text or binary.

When the user agent is to send a message through a presentation connection, it MUST run the following steps:

Input: presentationConnection, the presentation connection connected to the other browsing context; messageOrData, the presentation message data to send to the other browsing context

If the state property of presentationConnection is not connected, throw an InvalidStateError exception.
If the closing procedure of presentationConnection has started, then abort these steps.
Let presentation message type messageType be binary if messageOrData is of type ArrayBuffer, ArrayBufferView, or Blob. Let messageType be text if messageOrData is of type DOMString.
Using an implementation specific mechanism, transmit the contents of messageOrData as the presentation message data and messageType as the presentation message type to the destination browsing context.
If the previous step encounters an unrecoverable error, then abruptly close the presentation connection presentationConnection with error as closeReason, and a closeMessage describing the error encountered.

Note

To assist applications in recovery from an error sending a message through a presentation connection, the user agent should include details of which attempt failed in closeMessage, along with a human readable string explaining the failure reason. Example renditions of closeMessage:

Unable to send text message (network_error): "hello" for DOMString messages, where "hello" is the first 256 characters of the failed message.
Unable to send binary message (invalid_message) for ArrayBuffer, ArrayBufferView and Blob messages.

Note

When sending a user-visible string via a presentation connection, the page author should take care to ensure that locale information is also propagated so that the destination user agent can know how to best render the string. See the examples for one solution.

6.5.3 Receiving a message through `PresentationConnection`

When the user agent has received a transmission from the remote side consisting of presentation message data and presentation message type, it MUST run the following steps to receive a message through a PresentationConnection:

Input: presentationConnection, the presentation connection receiving the message; messageType, the presentation message type of the message; messageData, the presentation message data of the message

Assert: this is running in parallel.
If the state property of presentationConnection is not connected, abort these steps.
Let event be the result of creating an event using the MessageEvent interface, with the event type message, which does not bubble and is not cancelable.
Initialize the event's data attribute as follows:
1. If messageType is text, then initialize event's data attribute to messageData with type DOMString.
2. If messageType is binary, and binaryType attribute is set to "blob", then initialize event's data attribute to a new Blob object with messageData as its raw data.
3. If messageType is binary, and binaryType attribute is set to "arraybuffer", then initialize event's data attribute to a new ArrayBuffer object whose contents are messageData.
Queue a Presentation API task to fire event at presentationConnection.

If the user agent encounters an unrecoverable error while receiving a message through presentationConnection, it MUST abruptly close the presentation connection presentationConnection with error as closeReason. It SHOULD use a human readable description of the error encountered as closeMessage.

6.5.4 Interface `PresentationConnectionCloseEvent`

WebIDLenum PresentationConnectionCloseReason { "error", "closed", "wentaway" };

[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface PresentationConnectionCloseEvent : Event {
  constructor(DOMString type, PresentationConnectionCloseEventInit eventInitDict);
  readonly attribute PresentationConnectionCloseReason reason;
  readonly attribute DOMString message;
};

dictionary PresentationConnectionCloseEventInit : EventInit {
  required PresentationConnectionCloseReason reason;
  DOMString message = "";
};

A PresentationConnectionCloseEvent is fired when a presentation connection enters a closed state. The reason attribute provides the reason why the connection was closed. It can take one of the values of PresentationConnectionCloseReason:

error means that the mechanism for connecting or communicating with a presentation entered an unrecoverable error.
closed means that either the controlling browsing context or the receiving browsing context that were connected by the PresentationConnection called close().
wentaway means that the browser closed the connection, for example, because the browsing context that owned the connection navigated or was discarded.

When the reason attribute is error, the user agent SHOULD set the message attribute to a human readable description of how the communication channel encountered an error.

When the PresentationConnectionCloseEvent constructor is called, the user agent MUST construct a new PresentationConnectionCloseEvent object, with its reason attribute set to the reason member of the PresentationConnectionCloseEventInit object passed to the constructor, and its message attribute set to the message member of this PresentationConnectionCloseEventInit object if set, to an empty string otherwise.

6.5.5 Closing a `PresentationConnection`

When the user agent is to start closing a presentation connection, it MUST do the following:

Input: presentationConnection, the presentation connection to be closed; closeReason, the PresentationConnectionCloseReason describing why the connection is to be closed; closeMessage, a human-readable message with details of why the connection was closed

If the presentation connection state of presentationConnection is not connecting or connected then abort the remaining steps.
Set the presentation connection state of presentationConnection to closed.
Start to signal to the destination browsing context the intention to close the corresponding PresentationConnection, passing the closeReason to that context. The user agent does not need to wait for acknowledgement that the corresponding PresentationConnection was actually closed before proceeding to the next step.
If closeReason is not wentaway, then locally run the steps to close the presentation connection with presentationConnection, closeReason, and closeMessage.

When the user agent is to close a presentation connection, it MUST do the following:

Input: presentationConnection, the presentation connection to be closed; closeReason, the PresentationConnectionCloseReason describing why the connection is to be closed; closeMessage, a human-readable message with details of why the connection was closed.

If there is a pending close the presentation connection task for presentationConnection, or a close the presentation connection task has already run for presentationConnection, then abort the remaining steps.
Queue a Presentation API task to run the following steps:
1. If the presentation connection state of presentationConnection is not connecting, connected, or closed, then abort the remaining steps.
2. If the presentation connection state of presentationConnection is not closed, set it to closed.
3. If the presentationConnection was created as a result of monitoring incoming presentation connections in a receiving browsing context, run the following sub-steps.
  1. Remove presentationConnection from the set of presentation controllers.
  2. Populate the presentation controllers monitor with the set of presentation controllers.
4. Fire an event named close, that uses the PresentationConnectionCloseEvent interface, with the reason attribute initialized to closeReason and the message attribute initialized to closeMessage, at presentationConnection. The event must not bubble and must not be cancelable.

6.5.6 Terminating a presentation in a controlling browsing context

When a controlling user agent is to terminate a presentation in a controlling browsing context using connection, it MUST run the following steps:

If the presentation connection state of connection is not connected or connecting, then abort these steps.
Otherwise, for each known connection in the set of controlled presentations in the controlling user agent:
1. If the presentation identifier of known connection and connection are equal, and the presentation connection state of known connection is connected or connecting, then queue a global task on the presentation task source given known connection's relevant global object to run the following steps:
  1. Set the presentation connection state of known connection to terminated.
  2. Fire an event named terminate at known connection.
In parallel, send a termination request for the presentation to its receiving user agent using an implementation specific mechanism.

6.5.7 Terminating a presentation in a receiving browsing context

When any of the following occur, the receiving user agent MUST terminate a presentation in a receiving browsing context:

The receiving user agent is to unload a document corresponding to the receiving browsing context, e.g. in response to a request to navigate that context to a new resource.
The user requests to terminate the presentation via the receiving user agent.
Note
This could happen by an explicit user action, or as a policy of the user agent. For example, the receiving user agent could be configured to terminate presentations whose PresentationConnection objects are all closed for 30 minutes.
A controlling user agent sends a termination request to the receiving user agent for that presentation.

When a receiving user agent is to terminate a presentation in a receiving browsing context, it MUST run the following steps:

Let P be the presentation to be terminated, let allControllers be the set of presentation controllers that were created for P, and connectedControllers an empty list.
For each connection in allControllers, run the following steps:
1. If the presentation connection state of connection is connected, then add connection to connectedControllers.
2. Set the presentation connection state of connection to terminated.
If there is a receiving browsing context for P, and it has a document for P that is not unloaded, unload a document corresponding to that browsing context, remove that browsing context from the user interface and discard it.
For each connection in connectedControllers, send a termination confirmation for P using an implementation specific mechanism to the controlling user agent that owns the destination browsing context for connection.
Note
Only one termination confirmation needs to be sent per controlling user agent.

6.5.8 Handling a termination confirmation in a controlling user agent

When a receiving user agent is to send a termination confirmation for a presentation P, and that confirmation was received by a controlling user agent, the controlling user agent MUST run the following steps:

For each connection in the set of controlled presentations that was connected to P, queue a global task on the presentation task source given connection's relevant global object to run the following steps:
1. If the presentation connection state of connection is not connected or connecting, then abort the following steps.
2. Set the presentation connection state of connection to terminated.
3. Fire an event named terminate at connection.

6.5.9 Event Handlers

Event handler	Event handler event type
`onmessage`	`message`
`onconnect`	`connect`
`onclose`	`close`
`onterminate`	`terminate`

6.6 Interface `PresentationReceiver`

WebIDL[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface PresentationReceiver {
  readonly attribute Promise<PresentationConnectionList> connectionList;
};

The PresentationReceiver interface allows a receiving browsing context to access the controlling browsing contexts and communicate with them. The PresentationReceiver interface MUST be implemented in a receiving browsing context provided by a receiving user agent.

On getting, the connectionList attribute MUST return the result of running the following steps:

If the presentation controllers promise is not null, return the presentation controllers promise and abort all remaining steps.
Otherwise, let the presentation controllers promise be a new Promise constructed in the JavaScript realm of this PresentationReceiver object.
Return the presentation controllers promise.
If the presentation controllers monitor is not null, resolve the presentation controllers promise with the presentation controllers monitor.

6.6.1 Creating a receiving browsing context

When the user agent is to create a receiving browsing context, it MUST run the following steps:

Input: D, a presentation display chosen by the user; presentationUrl, the presentation request URL; presentationId, the presentation identifier

Create a new top-level browsing context C, set to display content on D.
Set the session history of C to be the empty list.
Set the sandboxed modals flag and the sandboxed auxiliary navigation browsing context flag on C.
If the receiving user agent implements [PERMISSIONS], set the permission state of all permission descriptor types for C to "denied".
Create a new empty cookie store for C.
Create a new empty store for C to hold HTTP authentication states.
Create a new empty storage for session storage areas and local storage areas for C.
If the receiving user agent implements [INDEXEDDB], create a new empty storage for IndexedDB databases for C.
If the receiving user agent implements [SERVICE-WORKERS], create a new empty list of registered service worker registrations and a new empty set of Cache objects for C.
Navigate C to presentationUrl.
Start monitoring incoming presentation connections for C with presentationId and presentationUrl.

All child navigables created by the presented document, i.e. that have the receiving browsing context as their top-level browsing context, MUST also have restrictions 2-4 above. In addition, they MUST have the sandboxed top-level navigation without user activation browsing context flag set. All of these browsing contexts MUST also share the same browsing state (storage) for features 5-10 listed above.

When the top-level browsing context attempts to navigate to a new resource and runs the steps to navigate, it MUST follow step 1 to determine if it is allowed to navigate. In addition, it MUST NOT be allowed to navigate itself to a new resource, except by navigating to a fragment identifier or by reloading its document.

Note

This allows the user to grant permission based on the origin of the presentation URL shown when selecting a presentation display.

If the top-level-browsing context was not allowed to navigate, it SHOULD NOT offer to open the resource in a new top-level browsing context, but otherwise SHOULD be consistent with the steps to navigate.

Window clients and worker clients associated with the receiving browsing context and its descendant navigables must not be exposed to service workers associated with each other.

When the receiving browsing context is terminated, any service workers associated with it and the browsing contexts in its descendant navigables MUST be unregistered and terminated. Any browsing state associated with the receiving browsing context and the browsing contexts in its descendant navigables, including session history, the cookie store, any HTTP authentication state, any databases, the session storage areas, the local storage areas, the list of registered service worker registrations and the Cache objects MUST be discarded and not used for any other browsing context.

Note

This algorithm is intended to create a well defined environment to allow interoperable behavior for 1-UA and 2-UA presentations, and to minimize the amount of state remaining on a presentation display used for a 2-UA presentation.

The receiving user agent SHOULD fetch resources in a receiving browsing context with an HTTP Accept-Language header that reflects the language preferences of the controlling user agent (i.e., with the same Accept-Language that the controlling user agent would have sent). This will help the receiving user agent render the presentation with fonts and locale-specific attributes that reflect the user's preferences.

Note

Given the operating context of the presentation display, some Web APIs will not work by design (for example, by requiring user input) or will be obsolete (for example, by attempting window management); the receiving user agent should be aware of this. Furthermore, any modal user interface will need to be handled carefully. The sandboxed modals flag is set on the receiving browsing context to prevent most of these operations.

Note

As noted in Conformance, a user agent that is both a controlling user agent and receiving user agent may allow a receiving browsing context to create additional presentations (thus becoming a controlling browsing context as well). Web developers can use navigator.presentation.receiver to detect when a document is loaded as a receiving browsing context.

6.7 Interface `PresentationConnectionList`

WebIDL[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface PresentationConnectionList : EventTarget {
  readonly attribute FrozenArray<PresentationConnection> connections;
  attribute EventHandler onconnectionavailable;
};

The connections attribute MUST return the non-terminated set of presentation connections in the set of presentation controllers.

6.7.1 Monitoring incoming presentation connections

When the receiving user agent is to start monitoring incoming presentation connections in a receiving browsing context from controlling browsing contexts, it MUST listen to and accept incoming connection requests from a controlling browsing context using an implementation specific mechanism. When a new connection request is received from a controlling browsing context, the receiving user agent MUST run the following steps:

Input: I, the presentation identifier passed by the controlling browsing context with the incoming connection request; presentationId, the presentation identifier used to create the receiving browsing context; presentationUrl, the presentation request URL used to create the receiving browsing context

Assert: this is running in parallel.
If presentationId and I are not equal, refuse the connection and abort all remaining steps.
Create a new PresentationConnection S.
Set the presentation identifier of S to I.
Set the presentation URL of S to presentationUrl.
Establish the connection between the controlling and receiving browsing contexts using an implementation specific mechanism.
If connection establishment completes successfully, set the presentation connection state of S to connected. Otherwise, set the presentation connection state of S to closed and abort all remaining steps.
Add S to the set of presentation controllers.
If the presentation controllers monitor is null, run the following steps in parallel.
1. Let the presentation controllers monitor be a new PresentationConnectionList constructed in the JavaScript realm of the PresentationReceiver object of the receiving browsing context.
2. Populate the presentation controllers monitor with the set of presentation controllers.
3. If the presentation controllers promise is not null, queue a Presentation API task to resolve the presentation controllers promise with the presentation controllers monitor.
4. Abort all remaining steps.
Otherwise, run the following steps in parallel.
1. Populate the presentation controllers monitor with the set of presentation controllers.
2. Queue a Presentation API task to fire an event named connectionavailable, that uses the PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent interface, with the connection attribute initialized to S, at the presentation controllers monitor. The event must not bubble and must not be cancelable.

6.7.2 Event Handlers

Event handler	Event handler event type
`onconnectionavailable`	`connectionavailable`

7. Security and privacy considerations

This section is non-normative.

7.1 Personally identifiable information

The change event fired on the PresentationAvailability object reveals one bit of information about the presence or absence of a presentation display, often discovered through the browser's local area network. This could be used in conjunction with other information for fingerprinting the user. However, this information is also dependent on the user's local network context, so the risk is minimized.

The API enables monitoring the list of available presentation displays. How the user agent determines the compatibility and availability of a presentation display with a given URL is an implementation detail. If a controlling user agent matches a presentation request URL to a DIAL application to determine its availability, this feature can be used to probe information about which DIAL applications the user has installed on the presentation display without user consent.

7.2 Cross-origin access

A presentation is allowed to be accessed across origins; the presentation URL and presentation identifier used to create the presentation are the only information needed to reconnect to a presentation from any origin in the controlling user agent. In other words, a presentation is not tied to a particular opening origin.

This design allows controlling contexts from different origins to connect to a shared presentation resource. The security of the presentation identifier prevents arbitrary origins from connecting to an existing presentation.

This specification also allows a receiving user agent to publish information about its set of controlled presentations, and a controlling user agent to reconnect to presentations started from other devices. This is possible when the controlling browsing context obtains the presentation URL and presentation identifier of a running presentation from the user, local storage, or a server, and then connects to the presentation via reconnect.

This specification makes no guarantee as to the identity of any party connecting to a presentation. Once connected, the presentation may wish to further verify the identity of the connecting party through application-specific means. For example, the presentation could challenge the controller to provide a token via send that the presentation uses to verify identity and authorization.

7.3 User interface guidelines

Origin display

When the user is asked permission to use a presentation display during the steps to select a presentation display, the controlling user agent should make it clear what origin is requesting presentation and what origin will be presented.

Display of the origin requesting presentation will help the user understand what content is making the request, especially when the request is initiated from a child navigable. For example, embedded content may try to convince the user to click to trigger a request to start an unwanted presentation.

The sandboxed top-level navigation without user activation browsing context flag is set on the receiving browsing context to enforce that the top-level origin of the presentation remains the same during the lifetime of the presentation.

Cross-device access

When a user starts a presentation, the user will begin with exclusive control of the presentation. However, the Presentation API allows additional devices (likely belonging to distinct users) to connect and thereby control the presentation as well. When a second device connects to a presentation, it is recommended that all connected controlling user agents notify their users via the browser chrome that the original user has lost exclusive access, and there are now multiple controllers for the presentation.

In addition, it may be the case that the receiving user agent is capable of receiving user input, as well as acting as a presentation display. In this case, the receiving user agent should notify its user via browser chrome when a receiving browsing context is under the control of a remote party (i.e., it has one or more connected controllers).

7.4 Device Access

The presentation API abstracts away what "local" means for displays, meaning that it exposes network-accessible displays as though they were directly attached to the user's device. The Presentation API requires user permission for a page to access any display to mitigate issues that could arise, such as showing unwanted content on a display viewable by others.

7.5 Temporary identifiers and browser state

The presentation URL and presentation identifier can be used to connect to a presentation from another browsing context. They can be intercepted if an attacker can inject content into the controlling page.

7.6 Private browsing mode and clearing of browsing data

The content displayed on the presentation is different from the controller. In particular, if the user is logged in in both contexts, then logs out of the controlling browsing context, they will not be automatically logged out from the receiving browsing context. Applications that use authentication should pay extra care when communicating between devices.

The set of presentations known to the user agent should be cleared when the user requests to "clear browsing data."

When in private browsing mode ("incognito"), the initial set of controlled presentations in that browsing session must be empty. Any presentation connections added to it must be discarded when the session terminates.

7.7 Messaging between presentation connections

This spec will not mandate communication protocols between the controlling browsing context and the receiving browsing context, but it should set some guarantees of message confidentiality and authenticity between corresponding presentation connections.

A. IDL Index

WebIDLpartial interface Navigator {
  [SecureContext, SameObject] readonly attribute Presentation presentation;
};

[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface Presentation {
};

partial interface Presentation {
  attribute PresentationRequest? defaultRequest;
};

partial interface Presentation {
  readonly attribute PresentationReceiver? receiver;
};

[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface PresentationRequest : EventTarget {
  constructor(USVString url);
  constructor(sequence<USVString> urls);
  Promise<PresentationConnection> start();
  Promise<PresentationConnection> reconnect(USVString presentationId);
  Promise<PresentationAvailability> getAvailability();

  attribute EventHandler onconnectionavailable;
};

[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface PresentationAvailability : EventTarget {
  readonly attribute boolean value;

  attribute EventHandler onchange;
};

[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent : Event {
  constructor(DOMString type, PresentationConnectionAvailableEventInit eventInitDict);
  [SameObject] readonly attribute PresentationConnection connection;
};

dictionary PresentationConnectionAvailableEventInit : EventInit {
  required PresentationConnection connection;
};

enum PresentationConnectionState { "connecting", "connected", "closed", "terminated" };

[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface PresentationConnection : EventTarget {
  readonly attribute USVString id;
  readonly attribute USVString url;
  readonly attribute PresentationConnectionState state;
  undefined close();
  undefined terminate();
  attribute EventHandler onconnect;
  attribute EventHandler onclose;
  attribute EventHandler onterminate;

  // Communication
  attribute BinaryType binaryType;
  attribute EventHandler onmessage;
  undefined send (DOMString message);
  undefined send (Blob data);
  undefined send (ArrayBuffer data);
  undefined send (ArrayBufferView data);
};

enum PresentationConnectionCloseReason { "error", "closed", "wentaway" };

[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface PresentationConnectionCloseEvent : Event {
  constructor(DOMString type, PresentationConnectionCloseEventInit eventInitDict);
  readonly attribute PresentationConnectionCloseReason reason;
  readonly attribute DOMString message;
};

dictionary PresentationConnectionCloseEventInit : EventInit {
  required PresentationConnectionCloseReason reason;
  DOMString message = "";
};

[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface PresentationReceiver {
  readonly attribute Promise<PresentationConnectionList> connectionList;
};

[SecureContext, Exposed=Window]
interface PresentationConnectionList : EventTarget {
  readonly attribute FrozenArray<PresentationConnection> connections;
  attribute EventHandler onconnectionavailable;
};

B. Index

B.1 Terms defined by this specification

1-UA mode §1.
2-UA mode §1.
allowed to navigate §4.
available presentation display §6.1
binaryType attribute for PresentationConnection §6.5
change §6.4
close method for PresentationConnection §6.5
close a presentation connection §6.5.5
closed
- enum value for PresentationConnectionState §6.5
- enum value for PresentationConnectionCloseReason §6.5.4
connect §6.5.9
"connected" enum value for PresentationConnectionState §6.5
"connecting" enum value for PresentationConnectionState §6.5
connection
- attribute for PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent §6.4.5
- member for PresentationConnectionAvailableEventInit §6.4.5
connectionavailable §6.3.6
connectionList attribute for PresentationReceiver §6.6
connections attribute for PresentationConnectionList §6.7
constructor
- for PresentationRequest §6.3
- for PresentationRequest §6.3
- for PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent §6.4.5
- for PresentationConnectionCloseEvent §6.5.4
controlling browsing context §6.1
Controlling user agent §3.1
create a receiving browsing context §6.6.1
creating a new browsing context §4.
database §4.
default presentation request §6.1
defaultRequest attribute for Presentation §6.2.1
destination browsing context §6.1
"error" enum value for PresentationConnectionCloseReason §6.5.4
establish a presentation connection §6.5.1
getAvailability method for PresentationRequest §6.4.3
id attribute for PresentationConnection §6.5
list of available presentation displays §6.4.2
local storage area §4.
message
- attribute for PresentationConnectionCloseEvent §6.5.4
- member for PresentationConnectionCloseEventInit §6.5.4
monitor the list of available presentation displays §6.4.4
monitoring incoming presentation connections §6.7.1
navigating to a fragment identifier §4.
onchange attribute for PresentationAvailability §6.4
onclose attribute for PresentationConnection §6.5.9
onconnect attribute for PresentationConnection §6.5.9
onconnectionavailable
- attribute for PresentationRequest §6.3.6
- attribute for PresentationConnectionList §6.7.2
onmessage attribute for PresentationConnection §6.5.9
onterminate attribute for PresentationConnection §6.5.9
parse a url §4.
presentation attribute for Navigator §6.2
Presentation interface §6.2
presentation connection §6.1
presentation connection state §6.1
presentation controllers monitor §6.1
presentation controllers promise §6.1
presentation display §6.1
presentation display availability §6.4
presentation identifier §6.1
presentation message data §6.5.2
presentation message type §6.5.2
presentation request URLs §6.3
presentation task source §6.1
presentation URL §6.1
PresentationAvailability interface §6.4
PresentationConnection interface §6.5
PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent interface §6.4.5
PresentationConnectionAvailableEventInit dictionary §6.4.5
PresentationConnectionCloseEvent interface §6.5.4
PresentationConnectionCloseEventInit dictionary §6.5.4
PresentationConnectionCloseReason enum §6.5.4
PresentationConnectionList interface §6.7
PresentationConnectionState enum §6.5
PresentationReceiver interface §6.6
PresentationRequest interface §6.3
queues a Presentation API task §6.1
reason
- attribute for PresentationConnectionCloseEvent §6.5.4
- member for PresentationConnectionCloseEventInit §6.5.4
receive a message §6.5.3
receiver attribute for Presentation §6.2.2
receiving browsing context §6.1
Receiving user agent §3.1
reconnect method for PresentationRequest §6.3.5
reload a document §4.
select a presentation display §6.3.2
send method for PresentationConnection §6.5
send a message §6.5.2
send a termination request §6.5.6
session history §4.
session storage area §4.
set of controlled presentations §6.1
set of presentation availability objects §6.4.1
set of presentation controllers §6.1
start method for PresentationRequest §6.3.2
start a presentation connection §6.3.4
start a presentation from a default presentation request §6.3.3
start closing a presentation connection §6.5.5
state attribute for PresentationConnection §6.5
terminate method for PresentationConnection §6.5
terminate a presentation in a controlling browsing context §6.5.6
terminate a presentation in a receiving browsing context §6.5.7
"terminated" enum value for PresentationConnectionState §6.5
unload a document §4.
url attribute for PresentationConnection §6.5
user agents §3.1
valid presentation identifier §6.1
value attribute for PresentationAvailability §6.4
"wentaway" enum value for PresentationConnectionCloseReason §6.5.4

B.2 Terms defined by reference

[DIAL] defines the following:
- DIAL
[DOM] defines the following:
- creating an event
- Event interface
- EventInit
- EventTarget interface
- fire an event
[ECMASCRIPT] defines the following:
- JavaScript realm
- rejected
- resolved
[FILEAPI] defines the following:
- Blob interface
[HTML] defines the following:
- active sandboxing flag set (for Document)
- active window (for navigable)
- browsing context
- child navigable
- current settings object
- descendant navigables (for Document)
- event handler
- event handler event type
- EventHandler
- global object
- in parallel
- localStorage attribute (for WindowLocalStorage)
- MessageEvent interface
- navigate
- Navigator interface
- queue a global task
- relevant global object
- reload() (for Location)
- sandboxed auxiliary navigation browsing context flag
- sandboxed modals flag
- sandboxed presentation browsing context flag
- sandboxed top-level navigation without user activation browsing context flag
- sessionStorage attribute (for WindowSessionStorage)
- task source
- top-level browsing context
- transient activation
[INFRA] defines the following:
- Assert
[PERMISSIONS] defines the following:
- permission descriptor types (for powerful feature)
- permission state
[RFC4122] defines the following:
- UUID
[RFC6265] defines the following:
- cookie store
[RFC9110] defines the following:
- Accept-Language
- HTTP authentication
[SECURE-CONTEXTS] defines the following:
- potentially trustworthy URL
[SERVICE-WORKERS] defines the following:
- Cache interface
- service worker registrations
- service workers
- window client (for service worker client)
- worker client (for service worker client)
[URL] defines the following:
- URL
[WEBIDL] defines the following:
- ArrayBuffer interface
- ArrayBufferView
- boolean type
- DOMString interface
- [Exposed] extended attribute
- FrozenArray interface
- InvalidAccessError exception
- InvalidStateError exception
- NotAllowedError exception
- NotFoundError exception
- NotSupportedError exception
- OperationError exception
- Promise interface
- [SameObject] extended attribute
- [SecureContext] extended attribute
- SecurityError exception
- sequence
- SyntaxError exception
- throw (for exception)
- undefined type
- USVString interface
[WEBRTC] defines the following:
- RTCDataChannel interface
[WEBSOCKETS] defines the following:
- BinaryType enum

C. Acknowledgments

Thanks to Addison Phillips, Anne Van Kesteren, Anssi Kostiainen, Anton Vayvod, Chris Needham, Christine Runnegar, Daniel Davis, Domenic Denicola, Erik Wilde, François Daoust, 闵洪波 (Hongbo Min), Hongki CHA, Hubert Sablonnière, Hyojin Song, Hyun June Kim, Jean-Claude Dufourd, Joanmarie Diggs, Jonas Sicking, Louay Bassbouss, Mark Watson, Martin Dürst, Matt Hammond, Mike West, Mounir Lamouri, Nick Doty, Oleg Beletski, Philip Jägenstedt, Richard Ishida, Shih-Chiang Chien, Takeshi Kanai, Tobie Langel, Tomoyuki Shimizu, Travis Leithead, and Wayne Carr for help with editing, reviews and feedback to this draft.

AirPlay, HDMI, Chromecast, DLNA and Miracast are registered trademarks of Apple Inc., HDMI Licensing LLC., Google Inc., the Digital Living Network Alliance, and the Wi-Fi Alliance, respectively. They are only cited as background information and their use is not required to implement the specification.

D. Candidate Recommendation exit criteria

For this specification to be advanced to Proposed Recommendation, there must be, for each of the conformance classes it defines (controlling user agent and receiving user agent), at least two independent, interoperable implementations of each feature. Each feature may be implemented by a different set of products, there is no requirement that all features be implemented by a single product. Additionally, implementations of the controlling user agent conformance class must include at least one implementation of the 1-UA mode, and one implementation of the 2-UA mode. 2-UA mode implementations may only support non http/https presentation URLs. Implementations of the receiving user agent conformance class may not include implementations of the 2-UA mode.

The API was recently restricted to secure contexts. Deprecation of the API in non secure contexts in early implementations takes time. The group may request transition to Proposed Recommendation with implementations that still expose the API in non secure contexts, provided there exists a timeline to restrict these implementations in the future.

For the purposes of these criteria, we define the following terms:

Independent

Each implementation must be developed by a different party, and cannot share, reuse, or derive from code used by another qualifying implementation. Sections of code that have no bearing on the implementation of this specification are exempt from this requirement.

Interoperable

Passing the respective test case(s) in the official test suite.

Implementation

A user agent which:

implements one of the conformance classes of the specification.
is available to the general public. The implementation may be a shipping product or other publicly available version (i.e., beta version, preview release, or "nightly build"). Non-shipping product releases must have implemented the feature(s) for a period of at least one month in order to demonstrate stability.
is not experimental (i.e. a version specifically designed to pass the test suite and not intended for normal usage going forward).

E. Change log

This section is non-normative.

This section lists changes made to the spec since it was first published as Candidate Recommendation in July 2016, with links to related issues on the group's issue tracker.

E.1 Changes since 01 June 2017

Added a note about receiving browsing contexts starting presentations (#487)
Removed the definition of the BinaryType enum (#473)
Updated WebIDL to use constructor operations (#469)
Clarified how receiving browsing contexts are allowed to navigate (#461)
Added explanatory text to the sample code (#460)
Added sample code that starts a second presentation from the same controller (#453)
Updated the steps to construct a PresentationRequest to ignore a URL with an unsupported scheme (#447)
Clarified restrictions on navigation in receiving browsing contexts (#434)
Updated WebIDL to use [Exposed=Window] (#438)
Various editorial updates (#429, #431, #432, #433, #441, #442, #443, #454, #465, #482, #483, #486)

E.2 Changes since 14 July 2016

Fixed document license (#428)
Updated termination algorithm to also discard the receiving browsing context and allow termination in a connecting state (#421, #423)
Dropped sandboxing section, now integrated in HTML (#437 in the Web Platform Working Group issue tracker)
Relaxed exit criteria to match known implementations plans (#406)
The sandboxed top-level navigation browsing context flag and the sandboxed modals flag are now set on the receiving browsing context to prevent top-level navigation and the ability to spawn new browsing contexts (#414)
Moved sandboxing flag checks to PresentationRequest constructor (#379, #398)
Updated normative references to target stable specifications (#295, #396)
Made display selection algorithm reject in ancestor and descendant browsing context (#394)
Renamed PresentationConnectionClosedReason to PresentationConnectionCloseReason (#393)
Fixed getAvailability and monitoring algorithms (#335, #381, #382, #383, #387, #388, #392)
Assigned correct JavaScript realm to re-used objects (#391)
API now restricted to secure contexts (#380)
Set the state of receiving presentation connections to terminated before unload (#374)
Defined environment for nested contexts of the receiving browsing context (#367)
Removed [SameObject] from Presentation.receiver and PresentationReceiver.connectionList (#365, #407)
Replaced DOMString with USVString for PresentationRequest URLs (#361)
Added a presentation task source for events (#360)
Changed normative language around UUID generation (#346)
Added failure reason to close message (#344)
Added error handling to establish a presentation connection algorithm (#343)
Made navigator.presentation mandatory (#341)
Used current settings object in steps that require a settings object (#336)
Updated security check step to handle multiple URLs case (#329)
Made PresentationConnection.id mandatory (#325)
Renamed PresentationConnectionClosedEvent to PresentationConnectionCloseEvent (#324)
Added an implementation note for advertising and rendering a user friendly display name (#315)
Added note for presentation detection (#303)
Various editorial updates (#334, #337, #339, #340, #342, #345, #359, #363, #366, #397)

F. References

F.1 Normative references

[DIAL]: DIscovery And Launch Protocol Specification. Netflix; YouTube. Netflix. URL: http://www.dial-multiscreen.org/dial-protocol-specification
[dom]: DOM Standard. Anne van Kesteren. WHATWG. Living Standard. URL: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/
[ECMASCRIPT]: ECMAScript Language Specification. Ecma International. URL: https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/
[fileapi]: File API. Marijn Kruisselbrink. W3C. 4 December 2024. W3C Working Draft. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/
[HTML]: HTML Standard. Anne van Kesteren; Domenic Denicola; Dominic Farolino; Ian Hickson; Philip Jägenstedt; Simon Pieters. WHATWG. Living Standard. URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
[INDEXEDDB]: Indexed Database API. Nikunj Mehta; Jonas Sicking; Eliot Graff; Andrei Popescu; Jeremy Orlow; Joshua Bell. W3C. 8 January 2015. W3C Recommendation. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/
[infra]: Infra Standard. Anne van Kesteren; Domenic Denicola. WHATWG. Living Standard. URL: https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/
[PERMISSIONS]: Permissions. Marcos Caceres; Mike Taylor. W3C. 20 December 2024. W3C Working Draft. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/permissions/
[RFC2119]: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels. S. Bradner. IETF. March 1997. Best Current Practice. URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119
[RFC4122]: A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN Namespace. P. Leach; M. Mealling; R. Salz. IETF. July 2005. Proposed Standard. URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4122
[RFC6265]: HTTP State Management Mechanism. A. Barth. IETF. April 2011. Proposed Standard. URL: https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc6265.html
[RFC8174]: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words. B. Leiba. IETF. May 2017. Best Current Practice. URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8174
[RFC9110]: HTTP Semantics. R. Fielding, Ed.; M. Nottingham, Ed.; J. Reschke, Ed. IETF. June 2022. Internet Standard. URL: https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html
[secure-contexts]: Secure Contexts. Mike West. W3C. 10 November 2023. CRD. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/secure-contexts/
[SERVICE-WORKERS]: Service Workers. Jake Archibald; Marijn Kruisselbrink. W3C. 12 July 2022. CRD. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers/
[url]: URL Standard. Anne van Kesteren. WHATWG. Living Standard. URL: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/
[WEBIDL]: Web IDL Standard. Edgar Chen; Timothy Gu. WHATWG. Living Standard. URL: https://webidl.spec.whatwg.org/
[websockets]: WebSockets Standard. Adam Rice. WHATWG. Living Standard. URL: https://websockets.spec.whatwg.org/

F.2 Informative references

[webrtc]: WebRTC: Real-Time Communication in Browsers. Cullen Jennings; Jan-Ivar Bruaroey; Henrik Boström; Florent Castelli. W3C. 8 October 2024. W3C Recommendation. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/

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Presentation API

Abstract

Status of This Document

1. Introduction

2. Use cases and requirements

3. Conformance

3.1 Conformance classes

4. Terminology

5. Examples

5.1 Monitoring availability of presentation displays

5.2 Starting a new presentation

5.3 Reconnecting to an existing presentation

5.4 Starting a presentation by the controlling user agent

5.5 Monitoring the connection state and exchanging data

5.6 Listening for incoming presentation connections

5.7 Passing locale information with a message

5.8 Creating a second presentation from the same controlling page

6. API

6.1 Common idioms

6.2 Interface Presentation

6.2.1 Controlling user agent

6.2.2 Receiving user agent

6.3 Interface PresentationRequest

6.3.1 Constructing a PresentationRequest

6.3.2 Selecting a presentation display

6.3.3 Starting a presentation from a default presentation request

6.3.4 Starting a presentation connection

6.3.5 Reconnecting to a presentation

6.3.6 Event Handlers

6.4 Interface PresentationAvailability

6.4.1 The set of presentation availability objects

6.4.2 The list of available presentation displays

6.4.3 Getting the presentation displays availability information

6.4.4 Monitoring the list of available presentation displays

6.4.5 Interface PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent

6.5 Interface PresentationConnection

6.5.1 Establishing a presentation connection

6.5.2 Sending a message through PresentationConnection

6.5.3 Receiving a message through PresentationConnection

6.5.4 Interface PresentationConnectionCloseEvent

6.5.5 Closing a PresentationConnection

6.5.6 Terminating a presentation in a controlling browsing context

6.5.7 Terminating a presentation in a receiving browsing context

6.5.8 Handling a termination confirmation in a controlling user agent

6.5.9 Event Handlers

6.6 Interface PresentationReceiver

6.6.1 Creating a receiving browsing context

6.7 Interface PresentationConnectionList

6.7.1 Monitoring incoming presentation connections

6.7.2 Event Handlers

7. Security and privacy considerations

7.1 Personally identifiable information

7.2 Cross-origin access

7.3 User interface guidelines

7.4 Device Access

7.5 Temporary identifiers and browser state

7.6 Private browsing mode and clearing of browsing data

7.7 Messaging between presentation connections

A. IDL Index

B. Index

B.1 Terms defined by this specification

B.2 Terms defined by reference

C. Acknowledgments

D. Candidate Recommendation exit criteria

E. Change log

E.1 Changes since 01 June 2017

E.2 Changes since 14 July 2016

F. References

F.1 Normative references

F.2 Informative references

6.2 Interface `Presentation`

6.3 Interface `PresentationRequest`

6.3.1 Constructing a `PresentationRequest`

6.4 Interface `PresentationAvailability`

6.4.5 Interface `PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent`

6.5 Interface `PresentationConnection`

6.5.2 Sending a message through `PresentationConnection`

6.5.3 Receiving a message through `PresentationConnection`

6.5.4 Interface `PresentationConnectionCloseEvent`

6.5.5 Closing a `PresentationConnection`

6.6 Interface `PresentationReceiver`

6.7 Interface `PresentationConnectionList`