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For me the exciting bit is being able to access devices from them. E.g. I've been waiting for this for a while because you can write an app which communicates
by talkingquickly 13y ago
For me the exciting bit is being able to access devices from them.
E.g. I've been waiting for this for a while because you can write an app which communicates directly with an Arduino or any other serial device.
This means that a lot of special purpose desktop apps communicating with custom hardware can be written as Chrome apps and take advantage of the speed/ ease of UI development of web apps.
For one of the apps I maintain this will reduce the time it takes to make UI improvements from several days to several hours.
- josephwegner 13y agoChrome extensions have had access to external devices for a long time. It's not often used, but I've done stuff implementing chrome + arduino. http://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_hardware.html http://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_hardware.html A quick google search shows: https://github.com/BertHartm/Chromeduino https://github.com/BertHartm/Chromeduino
- talkingquickly 13y agoAbsolutely, I've also done some proof of concepts like that but for production use the "in browser" experience didn't really cut it for my uses.