Combined local and server context menus

A system comprising a hardware processor and computer executable instructions, that when executed by the hardware processor, cause the system to perform operations comprising:

• receiving indication of a context menu invocation along with associated context;
• determining a set of local context menu item providers each having an associated rank;
• determining a set of remote context menu item providers each having an associated rank;
• selecting a subset of context menu item providers from a combined set of local context menu item providers and remote context menu item providers based on the ranks;
• and
• presenting a context menu comprising items from the subset of context menu item providers to a user.

A computer storage medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

• receiving indication of a context menu invocation along with associated context;
• for each local context menu item provider of a set of local context menu item providers, receiving from the local context menu item provider an associated rank based on the associated context;
• for each remote context menu item provider of a set of remote context menu item providers, receiving from the remove context menu item provider an associated rank based on the associated context;
• selecting a subset of context menu item providers comprising a local context menu item provider and a remote context menu item provider based on associated ranks;
• retrieving HTML for a local context menu item from the local context menu item provider;
• retrieving HTML for a remote context menu item from the remote context menu item provider;
• combining the HTML for the local context menu item and the HTML for the remote context menu item;
• rendering the combined HTML into a context menu;
• and
• presenting a context menu a user.