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perryizgr8
on Feb 5, 2022
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Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBo...
There seems to be a bug specific to safari, that's why it doesn't "work" on anything else.
czhiddy
on Feb 5, 2022
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By that logic, WebUSB is a bug specific to Blink-based browsers, since it doesn't work on anything else?
perryizgr8
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I don't understand. WebUSB seems to be a feature/standard.
grishka
on Feb 5, 2022
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WebUSB is yet another attempt at turning a hypertext viewer into an operating system. Documents were never meant to be Turing-complete.
easrng
on Feb 5, 2022
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HTML is far from the first document format that's turing complete. See Postscript, PowerPoint (No macros needed), Excel (No macros needed), PDF (if you count the embedded JS), Word (If you use macros), etc.
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