WebSerial has landed in Firefox Nightly !!

[thibaultmol@en.osm.town]

@Kinghat @balloob yeah, which is exactly what you need if you want to flash various devices like esp's.
Currently was only in chrome

[paoloredaelli@mastodon.uno]

@balloob As far as I remember @mozilla once stated that they would have not implemented it because it was a potential huge secturity threat, I just wonder what made change their mind.

[loudfpv@mastodon.social]

@balloob
Took them long enough
@tobozo

[troed@swecyb.com]

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@balloob/116398481380578311

The only reason I have Chromium installed is for webserial. I haven't had the need to use anything but Firefox for years otherwise.

Awesome.

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@balloob cant wait for websystemd and then, finally, webweb.

[tobozo@mastodon.social]

@loudfpv @balloob

webserial in FF is a good thing but it's too late to be excited about it as someone else already won that medal in 2023 with a polyfill

WebSerial for Firefox – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download WebSerial for Firefox for Firefox. WebSerial API Polyfill for Mozilla Firefox browser

(addons.mozilla.org)

[drq@mastodon.ml]

@balloob Finally!

[rcgj_oxphys@floss.social]

@f4grx @balloob it was foretold: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript

(from the originator of this talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat )

[dalcacer@mas.to]

@balloob nice. There goes my only reason to have a chrome-based browser. Finally!

[djgummikuh@mastodon.social]

@balloob NOICE! one of the few reasons for me to keep a Chromium nearby finally eliminated!

[elsactivitypub@goto.freakstic.fr]

@balloob is webserial same as webUSB ?

[mxk@hachyderm.io]

@dragonarchitect @balloob don't those speak webusb instead of webserial?

[fliegerjohn@akk.datenkastl.de]

@balloob nice! No need for chrome anymore!

[tanepiper@tane.codes]

@balloob I tried https://web-serial-app.netlify.app/ with it - it works now, but the popup for the devices doesn't show except for a short moment, accepting 'test-device-1' - with block or allow. Any ideas? Would be nice to get it working, happy to update it

[shtrom@piaille.fr]

@paoloredaelli It's “neutral” now https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webserial, and a discussion here https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/687 @balloob @mozilla

[markstos@urbanists.social]

@paoloredaelli @balloob @mozilla It seems like somewhere during the ongoing Chromebook era there was a mentality shift that a web browser should be able to do practically everything an OS could. At this point, what's left in terms of what a web browser /can't/ do?

The framing has helped Linux because apps now seem as likely to be created for the web as they are for the dominant desktop OS.

[primalmotion@antisocial.ly]

@balloob boy. finally. I can trash chrome definitely.

[kayohtie@blimps.xyz]

@paoloredaelli @balloob @mozilla I would imagine popularity as well as them just figuring out a security model for implementing it. Maybe, like Chrome, it's not persistent between page loads and must be reauthorized every visit per-device.

[commanderred@chaos.social]

@balloob when will it be released tho

[dragonarchitect@rubber.social]

@mxk @balloob Tbh as an effectively-end user of these things, I don't know what APIs they use. I just care that I can't use these things on Firefox and I'm forced to wake up some Chrome-based browser to do the thing.