{"id":161274,"date":"2016-04-12T07:28:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T05:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=161274"},"modified":"2016-04-12T07:29:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T05:29:23","slug":"webusb-api-created-by-google-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/161274-webusb-api-created-by-google-developers.html","title":{"rendered":"WebUSB API created by Google developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Google developers, Reilly Grant and Ken Rockot, have published a draft document on\u00a0an API for direct USB access via web pages.<\/p>\n<p>The document, titled <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wicg.github.io\/webusb\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebUSB API<\/a><\/strong>, provides a way to safely expose USB device services to the web.<\/p>\n<p>It provides an API familiar to developers who have used existing native USB libraries, and exposes the device interfaces defined by existing specifications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this API, hardware manufacturers will have the ability to build cross-platform JavaScript SDKs for their devices,\u201d the document states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on software<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/161152-ubuntu-is-everywhere.html\"><strong>Ubuntu is everywhere<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/159083-most-popular-operating-systems-among-developers.html\"><strong>Most popular operating systems among developers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/145579-google-has-open-sourced-its-artificial-intelligence-engine.html\"><strong>Google has open sourced its artificial intelligence engine<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Google developers have published a draft document on an API for direct USB access via web pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":154280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,167,36510],"class_list":["post-161274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-google","tag-webusb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161280,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161274\/revisions\/161280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}