- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:01:54 -0500
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com> wrote: > So the question we should be asking here is, > why *would* you use Java or Flash instead of HTML5, and how can we fix > that? This much I agree with in principle, though not to the extent that every single use case Java handles should be represented in HTML5. >?In this case, I think we have bigger fish to fry for the time > being, but some sort of peripheral driver interface for web apps would > be a good idea to have eventually. Let's be clear about terminology: do you mean an interface to access peripheral drivers, or an interface to implement them? The latter doesn't belong anywhere near Javascript, at least in any standardized, cross-platform sense. The former is more reasonable in principle, but the interfaces to drivers vary wildly depending on the device and operating system. That's the point of a driver, of course, to translate the device to a higher-level interface for accessing it. It's not possible to create a single API to encompass them all. -- Glenn Maynard
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