USB Serial is such a great thing, finally ending those annoying Electron apps that are only used for one thing. There’s a list of tools that now use the browser to set up devices, and it’s fantastic.
ESPHome(+ hundreds projects that use it as a base), Betaflight, ELRS, Flipper just to name a few.
I understand that WebKit lacks support since it’s developed by Apple, and I would also be cautious if it granted any access to peripherals.
But Firefox? Firefox has severely lacked support for hardware "connections" and has been unfriendly for developers for a long time, so I simply stopped using it (one of the reasons). Reason they state for not adding support it is that user consent is not enough to access the device, which is just nonsense, they could have made it enabled under the developer flag or similar. Blink proved that it can be made secure.
I have a filling they are stubborn for no reason and are not seeing use cases that would make their browser usable.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Serial
https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/
ESPHome(+ hundreds projects that use it as a base), Betaflight, ELRS, Flipper just to name a few.
I understand that WebKit lacks support since it’s developed by Apple, and I would also be cautious if it granted any access to peripherals.
But Firefox? Firefox has severely lacked support for hardware "connections" and has been unfriendly for developers for a long time, so I simply stopped using it (one of the reasons). Reason they state for not adding support it is that user consent is not enough to access the device, which is just nonsense, they could have made it enabled under the developer flag or similar. Blink proved that it can be made secure.
I have a filling they are stubborn for no reason and are not seeing use cases that would make their browser usable.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Serial
https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/