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Firefox Nightly adds Web Serial after years of saying no (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 month ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] dan@upvote.au 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Why install a native app when a website can do it? It's very common to use a website to flash ESPHome for example.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well you have more control over it and not dependent on the server. Also it should be more private I guess. I'm not judging, just asking if there was no native app that you felt forced to use a worse browser.

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

not dependent on the server

It doesn't have to be - a developer could also provide a HTML file that the user can download and open locally.

And to be honest, if someone had to build a user-friendly cross-platform GUI app for connecting to some sort of serial device, they'd probably just end up using web technologies (Electron or Tauri) anyways. May as well avoid the extra overhead of Electron.