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Nkrs I'm done with computers. wicg.github.io/webusb
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Eric If this goes through and someone has the knowledge, skill and patience (hopefully me at the time) this could prove very interesting to webSDR. A webSoftware Defined Radio but "cloud" based rather than feeding from a lone receiver attached to the server. That would be incredibly interesting.
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Nkrs Yeah, there could be many useful applications, like banks giving people tokens that they could use to access their ebanking services and so on. But, there could be a lot of harmful applications, and I fear there might be more of those than of the useful ones.
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Mark Dain The W3C was, at one point, working on bringing NFC to the web: w3.org/TR/nfc although it looks like it's dead now
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Martijn Makes sense, Google should have started on this years ago. I recently had a discussion about the Chromebook and it came down to that it doesn't work because we need (want) file handling. I need to be able to download a file, open it with app of my choice, upload it to website of my choice, without having to rely on an app implementing one of thousands of cloud storage solutions. If Chrome OS (and by extension, Chrome the browser) had better file and system handling, that would have made a huge difference. Maybe.
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Nkrs It probably is for Chrome OS. My beef with this project is security: USB standard was made 20 years ago, and there still are security flaws found. Couple that with web, where new security holes are found every week, and you have a recipe for disaster. I don't see why a web page would need or want low-level access to hardware anyway, that problem should be in the domain of the operating system.
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