WebUSB API created by Google developers
Two Google developers, Reilly Grant and Ken Rockot, have published a draft document on an API for direct USB access via web pages.
The document, titled WebUSB API, provides a way to safely expose USB device services to the web.
It provides an API familiar to developers who have used existing native USB libraries, and exposes the device interfaces defined by existing specifications.
“With this API, hardware manufacturers will have the ability to build cross-platform JavaScript SDKs for their devices,” the document states.
“This will be good for the web because instead of waiting for a new kind of device to be popular enough for browsers to provide a specific API, new and innovative hardware can be built for the web from day one.”
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