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Comment by JimDabell

> I have a filling they are stubborn for no reason and are not seeing use cases that would make their browser usable.

This is untrue. Privacy and security issues have been raised. Web Serial is not a web standard and cannot become one until Mozilla or Apple sees these issues resolved. Google cannot make this into a web standard unilaterally; standards need consensus.

Here is the Mozilla discussion: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/336

And here is the WebKit discussion: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/199

parent JimDabell 1 year ago

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