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Transient user activation

HTML specification concept giving a page a short-lived window after a user gesture in which privileged calls such as opening a share sheet are permitted. Pages can query it through navigator.userActivation.isActive.

Known aliases

navigator.userActivation
user activation

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

A slow PDF build outlives the tap that authorised navigator.share()

LensUp's scanner runs entirely in the browser tab. On a mid-range phone the PDF is ready only after the tap's transient activation has expired. The team now reads navigator.userActivation.isActive and degrades to a second tap.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption20
Hype gap0
Incentives45
Confidence58