WebSerial has landed in Firefox Nightly !!

[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.

[richierich@hessen.social]

@balloob wow!

[gregstoll@techhub.social]

@tanepiper @balloob Hello! Can you confirm that the “dom.webserial.testing.enabled”preference (in about:config) is set to false?

[tanepiper@tane.codes]

@gregstoll @balloob Ahh yes I set it to true! That'll be it

[blackforestmesh@freiburg.social]

@fds2610 @stereo @balloob Man kann auch Helium nutzen, solange das noch nicht stabil ist und man kein Chrome/Edge mag: https://github.com/imputnet/helium

[gregstoll@techhub.social]

@tanepiper @balloob awesome, glad to hear it!