One API at a time. > I could see making a web POS application that connects to a USB serial barcode reader for instance. In the quest for increasingly worse

One API at a time. > I could see making a web POS application that connects to a USB serial barcode reader for instance. In the quest for increasingly worse applications? The browser should get as little information as possible about its environment. People will grant whatever permission it asks. The W3C's primary goal should be safe browser usage, not "supply Google with more data."