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WebUSB is pretty useful for web-based POS. Scanner and printer integrations.

• surajrmal 3y ago
  It's great for a lot of use cases. We use it to enable a cross platform device flashing tool. Much easier to build and distribute than native applications for all platforms we need to support. Serial is similarly useful for getting logs off of devices.
• nicman23 3y ago
  you know what is better? a upstream kernel driver
  • djbusby 3y ago
    I think you don't understand the use case. Kernel drivers don't connect the USB device to the JavaScript in the web-app.
    • nicman23 3y ago
      that whole sentence is disgusting
• tremon 3y ago
  But why should web-based POS be better than dedicated devices?
  • ultimatt42 3y ago
    That's the wrong comparison. We used to only have dedicated POS systems, now we have the option to run POS software on a general purpose computing device. The question is why should that POS software be a native app instead of a web app?