“ I just have no faith in humanity, and do not understand why we think this is a good idea to give a browser this much access to local system resources”
As opposed to dodgy windows-only installable software from
some weird site to flash devices instead? I’ll take my chances with webusb, thanks.
I love that, in order to reprogram my very expensive model locomotive, I not only have to buy a special device (ESU LokProgrammer) but I can also only use said programmer with windows.
Yeah I could have used some other decoder, but they all have limited functionality compared to Lol sound
There's no real reason a future iteration of the LokProgrammer couldn't run a simple webserver, or connect to Web USB.
This also all applies to most PLC programmers. Proprietary crap you have to run on Windows, just to build ladder logic
As opposed to dodgy windows-only installable software from some weird site to flash devices instead? I’ll take my chances with webusb, thanks.