alt Hacker NewsPeople are starting to ship even local apps only in the form of some html & js that only works on Chrome because only Chrome has webusb.
Whether we like the idea of the browser having access to usb or not, I at least like even less the idea of being forced to install and use Chrome for the same reasons as the bad old days of being forced to use IE.
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colechristensen • yesterday at 6:20 PM
I still want to reinvent the web with a hypertext document reader that doesn't include the kitchen sink. I suppose with LLMs these days this is actually an achievable prototype.
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Do you like the idea of installing Windows and installing some chinese drivers and some weird tool instead? Because that's the alternative to WebUSB.