Hardware APIs on the Web and using experimental technologies // Web BLE, Web USB, Geolocation

#webusb #webble #hardware Recently Safari and Firefox announced that they will no longer implement hardware-related APIs in their browsers, which Chrome is going ahead with the draft specifications on Web BLE, Web USB, and other interesting technologies to connect hardware with the Web. What does this mean for us, the developer? How can we continue to explore the boundaries of experimental technologies while learning about privacy and security? ⏰ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 2:36 Gathering all the information 3:01 Geolocation W3C Specification 3:47 Geolocation browser compatibility 4:01 Web Bluetooth W3C Specification 4:12 Web Bluetooth browser compatibility 4:22 Browser engines 4:45 WebKit feature status 5:01 Web USB W3C Specification 5:15 Web USB browser compatibility 5:26 Feature detection with JavaScript 6:23 Two different viewpoints 6:49 Platform Adjacency Theory 7:15 Browser fingerprinting 7:53 Making tiny experiments 8:22 Research paper on using experimental technologies 10:09 Should the Web expose hardware capabilities? 10:54 Demo with Web Bluetooth 13:37 Outro and my pinned comments on older videos ‣ Some links below are affiliate. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. 📻 PRODUCTS MENTIONED Adafruit Feather nRF52 Bluefruit LE https://amzn.to/3ndsBlF 🎩 DEMO FILES Feature detection code https://hutscape.com/tutorials/web-hw-feature-detection Feature detection demo site https://hutscape.com/web-hw-feature-detection Web BLE demo with privacy information https://hutscape.com/palm/web-ble/ Code for the demo https://github.com/hutscape/palm/blob/master/web-ble/index.html 📺 WATCH NEXT Using Web BLE to detect and get GATT information https://youtu.be/TsXUcAKi790 Data exchange from browser to a microcontroller with WebUSB https://youtu.be/G8AUgwZCe_Q 🔗 LINKS SHOWN Hardware APIs on the Web https://web.dev/devices/ Tracking Prevention in WebKit https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/#anti-fingerprinting Steve Jobs on privacy at the D8 Conference (Video) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39iKLwlUqBo&t=147s Geolocation API Specification 2nd Edition https://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/ W3C Process on Maturity Levels https://www.w3.org/2020/Process-20200915/#maturity-levels Browser compatibility of Geolocation API https://caniuse.com/geolocation Web Bluetooth Specification https://webbluetoothcg.github.io/web-bluetooth/ Browser compatibility of Web Bluetooth API https://caniuse.com/web-bluetooth Comparison of browser engines - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines#General_information WebKit Feature Status https://webkit.org/status/ WebUSB API Specification https://wicg.github.io/webusb/ Browser compatibility of Web USB API https://caniuse.com/webusb Platform Adjacency Theory by Alex Russell https://infrequently.org/2020/06/platform-adjacency-theory/ Mitigating Browser Fingerprinting in Web Specifications https://w3c.github.io/fingerprinting-guidance/ (PDF) An Ethical Framework for Evaluating Experimental Technology https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283790655_An_Ethical_Framework_for_Evaluating_Experimental_Technology Should The Web Expose Hardware Capabilities? by Noam Rosenthal — Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/01/web-expose-hardware-capabilities/ Adafruit Feather nRF52 Bluefruit LE [nRF52832] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3406 Adafruit VEML6075 UVA UVB and UV Index Sensor Breakout https://www.adafruit.com/product/3964 🔌 TOOLS USED https://hutscape.com/tools 🎶 MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS Nebular Focus from YouTube Audio library