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czhiddy
on Feb 5, 2022
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Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBo...
By that logic, WebUSB is a bug specific to Blink-based browsers, since it doesn't work on anything else?
perryizgr8
on Feb 5, 2022
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I don't understand. WebUSB seems to be a feature/standard.
grishka
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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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