Let's think about an example, perhaps a bluetooth weather station. For the OS it's just another bluetooth device. What if a web app could have permission (granted by the user/browser) to scan for bluetooth devices and fetch weather information, save it on the weather history and process it in some way.
- Does the OS need to know how to fetch this information? - Is a browser plugin really a better idea? Which browser/version? Then how is the page going to fetch that? How secure is that? Can't another page do it? This reminds me the use of <embed> which I personally hate. I hope this kind of example enlights some people to forget about storage, cameras, keyboards and all the stuff you can get in any general technology store. -- Diogo On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 01:02 +0100, Roger Hågensen wrote: > > Something that specific would be better implemented as a browser plugin > that wrap OS API or a OS driver's API functionality, > if it becomes popular then one or more browser developers would probably > be interested in supporting it without the need for a browser > plugin/wrapper, > at which point one just need to follow the guidelines that Ian posts > here quite frequently to get it standardized.
