- From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:45:49 +0000
On 1/3/11, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote: > On 1/3/11 7:47 AM, Diego Perini wrote: >> Mostly I am looking for other browser to implement this serial access >> like Firefox does > > Firefox doesn't implement "serial access". It just reads files. What's > exposed as "files" on a Unix system can be ... extensive (witness /proc > on Linux, say). It's up to the kernel. > This should be leveraged. Standardized API for file access and standardized file names are a powerful combination. Sysadmins/users can block or grant access to files, without even informing the browser of the criteria or how requests are evaluated. >>> For example can Flash overcome this restriction and access the >> devices through the "file:" protocol ? > > Of course, if the kernel exposes them as files. > Or a userspace abstractions, such as KIO. For those with a KDE bent of mind.
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