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It’s because the web is a moving target and embedded systems are static. What’s your reaction when you see a web browser or web page that is 10 years old? 20? T
by liketochill 5y ago
It’s because the web is a moving target and embedded systems are static. What’s your reaction when you see a web browser or web page that is 10 years old? 20? The timeframes of industrial machines is incompatible with web anything.
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoYou need to make a separation in your mind between "the web" and "web technologies." I said nothing about putting the device online.
- zinekeller 5y ago> You need to make a separation in your mind between "the web" and "web technologies." I said nothing about putting the device online. I wish so, but Google kind-of wrecks that proposition, introducing new stuff to the point that some developers might (unknowingly) use something that is not available on the embedded browser.
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoThat's kind of impossible when the server and the browser are on the same machine :-) Bear in mind that what I'm talking about here is making UI's for embedded systems easier to design by using web technologies. That means that we're only leveraging web tech for local use: there is no connectivity farther than (maybe) to another device on the same circuit board. Something like BoneScript (javascript for the BeagleBone) takes this step farther by building I/O extensions into the language so your system controller and webserver can be the same process.