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Because device vendor can provide you tools for your device that'll work in browser, protected by browser sandbox, cross-platform and always up to date. Rather

• graemep 3y ago
  That sounds like a problem with Windows that should be fixed in Windows. Adding a browser API for such narrow user cases is unnecessary. Even better Windows drivers should be signed as they are supposed to be,
• ale42 3y ago
  Why install drivers? Webserial is about serial ports. If you need a driver to actually see your serial port, you need to install it anyway to use webserial.
• ale42 3y ago
  Tools that unlike local apps will go offline when the vendors' web site will go offline at some point. And then the user will have a stupid brick instead of a device. I understand the convenience of using a web-based application, but it has numerous disadvantages that should also be taken in account.
  • zamadatix 3y ago
    A browser based application doesn't need to rely on the vendor's website being up any more than an executable based application needs to. It's definitely an option in each case but one does not imply the other. Distribution access becomes a pain point but in either case the answer is to find archived versions.
    • ale42 3y ago
      Sure, but I can easily put an installer on a NAS (or on whatever media I use for long-term storage) and keep it there. Properly archiving a website and making sure it works offline is another story: sometimes it is relatively simple, sometimes there are requests on backend servers and you'd have to reimplement whatever the backend is doing, and it can get a real pain to do.