A discussion has been raised in web-api list about the security model of webserial. Feel free to provide your input.
-Alex On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Florian Bender < florian.ben...@quantumedia.de> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 15. Juli 2014 21:01:19 UTC+2 schrieb somb...@gmail.com: > > I think an important statement for the spec to make is why it needs to > > exist at all? Specifically, it seems like both the WebUSB > > https://bugzil.la/674718 and WebBluetooth https://bugzil.la/674737 specs > > should both be equally capable of producing the standard stream > > abstractions supported by the protocols. > > There are several ways to expose a serial port in addition to USB and BT. > The WebSerial API shouldn't care about the transport layer. Neither does > the OS, it just exposes the serial port which may or may not go through > USB, BT, "native interface", or whatever. It's similar to a WebIPP API: You > don't want to know whether the printer is connected through USB, Parallel, > cabled or wireless network, you just want the OS to take the route it was > configured with and expose a common interface for all routes. > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
