Given there are multiple implementations now, is there a discussion to move it to an actual standards body? (WICG is not a standards body)
On Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 3:53:27 PM UTC+1 Greg Stoll wrote: > Summary: The Web Serial API provides a way for websites to read and write > from a serial device through script. Such an API can bridge the web and the > physical world, by allowing websites to communicate with devices such as > microcontrollers, 3D printers, and other serial devices. > Since serial devices are not generally hardened against adversarial input, > Firefox will gate this capability behind a site permission add-on, in a > very similar way to WebMIDI. See > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/site-permission-add-ons for more > information. > > Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926940 > > Specification: https://wicg.github.io/serial/ > > Standards Body: Web Platform Incubator Community Group draft report. > > Platform coverage: all Desktop OS's (Windows, Mac, Linux) > > Preference: dom.webserial.enabled (note that the Web Serial code has not > landed yet) > > Link to standards-positions discussion: > https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/336 > > Other browsers: > - Blink: Shipped since version 89 > - WebKit: negative position ( > https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/#anti-fingerprinting ) > > web-platform-tests: > https://wpt.fyi/results/serial?label=experimental&label=master&aligned > - There will be additional Gecko-specific tests that use a test-only > serial interface. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/d7eed720-c993-4ac7-a065-cf589e70bcacn%40mozilla.org.
