by coupdejarnac
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- Having WebUSB and WebBle everywhere would allow me to ship my IoT application via web only. That would be a win for my productivity, no more messing about with app store shenanigans.
- WebUSB is so great.
I can ship a cross-platform application that accesses a hardware device without having to deal with all the platform specifics, and with decent sandboxing of my driver.
I think one way to make it more "secure" against unwitting users would be to only support WebUSB for devices that have a WebUSB descriptor - would allow "origin" checking.
- I recently flashed GrapheneOS on a Pixel for a friend. I was very surprised that you can do this entire process from the browser using WebUSB - the only downside being that it required me to launch Chromium.
by Brian_K_White
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- People are starting to ship even local apps only in the form of some html & js that only works on Chrome because only Chrome has webusb.
Whether we like the idea of the browser having access to usb or not, I at least like even less the idea of being forced to install and use Chrome for the same reasons as the bad old days of being forced to use IE.
- Well, this seems like a terrible idea.
I really don't want websites to be able to access hardware. I am already uncomfortable with the webcam access.
- No thanks. I'll accept it in my browser when they fix the security implications this raises, and when the Spec is no longer in draft.
- Looks to be a great proof of concept. No, running a standalone executable alongside the browser is not the way you'd want to do WebUSB. But it's great to see someone working on it.
- And Web Serial reached mainline Firefox last week.
I hope Mozilla can eventually stop playing their silly role in the security theater of “but what if our users are dumb” and actually deliver those "power-user" features that would allow me to uninstall Chrome for good. Oh, and also, --app= flag please.
by npodbielski
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- Interesting. So I could use that to install Graphene OS?
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by shevy-java
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- Can't Mozilla hand over Firefox to another team?
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