- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:02:19 -0500
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95 at gmail.com> wrote: > I still don't grasp how that could be useful. Please provide an example. > So you've got a non-kb, mouse, headphone or camera device, say a > permanent storage drive. No, not something so general-purpose. Say it's some type of device where the market is so small that standardization is infeasible -- maybe it's only useful in a particular specialty, and there are only one or two low-volume vendors. Or maybe it's some new type of device where the market is uncertain and nothing has been standardized yet. Given that there's no standard high-level way to interact with the device, it might be desirable to have *some* way to interact with it, necessarily generic and low-level. Probably along the lines of sending and receiving binary messages. At least that's the general idea I get. I can't give any specific examples, but I don't think mass-market stuff like permanent storage drives is what we're talking about here. (We already have filesystem APIs in the works anyway, right?) Of course, more specific real-world use-cases would be necessary before anyone would consider speccing something like this.
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