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I was looking at some niche MIDI hardware recently and it had a link to a configuration app - which was just a web page on their site that used WebUSB. That's
by spankalee 6y ago
I was looking at some niche MIDI hardware recently and it had a link to a configuration app - which was just a web page on their site that used WebUSB.
That's exactly what I want out of web apps - no install, secure, cross platform, immediately useful, and importantly - accessible to the providers.
The configuration page is Chrome only for now, which sucks, but hopefully Apple and Mozilla will come around.
- sfink 6y agoSure, the WebUSB feature set is nice. Care to address any of the points made in the article? There's a reason why security and features are in constant tension; it doesn't really work to just ignore security when it happens to be features that you want. You'd better hope that your niche hardware isn't reprogrammable via USB to become an ethernet device that snoops all of your network traffic and injects attacks. It's pretty safe to assume that there is no such attack now. But if it ever happens at any point in the future, then either you'll get hacked, or your device will be blocked and the configuration app will stop working.
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- c22 6y agoI was playing with some ancient hardware pretty recently that got configured via serial port. The configuration program was included on a cd-rom (one of those weird miniature ones). I had to find a USB-serial adapter as well as an external USB cd-rom drive in order to make it all work. I also had to install Windows XP into a virtual machine. No idea if a simple web page using WebUSB would have worked better for me, the original manufacturer seems to have folded up over 10 years ago and their website no longer resolves.