Two Google engineers have created a draft version of an API—dubbed WebUSB—that aims at providing a simple and safe way to expose USB devices to the Web. The idea behind the project, created by Google ...

Two Google engineers have introduced a new API called WebUSB to the World Wide Web Consortium’s Incubator Community Group (W3C WICG) that would allow USB devices to connect to the Web safely. The API ...

Google is working on a new Unrestricted WebUSB feature, which allows trusted isolated web apps to bypass security restrictions in the WebUSB API. WebUSB is a JavaScript API that allows web ...

Two Google developers, Reilly Grant and Ken Rockot, have published a draft document on an API for direct USB access via web pages. The document, titled WebUSB API, provides a way to safely expose USB ...

' WebUSB ', an API that allows direct access to a USB device connected to a PC via a web browser, was developed in 2016 by Google engineers. It was officially supported by Google Chrome in 2017, but ...

Just a couple of weeks ago, we took a look at the [then] forthcoming version 61 of Google's Chrome, which introduces some notable features, including support for a slew of new APIs. Chrome 61 is now ...

Google is working to allow trusted isolated web applications to have unfettered access through the WebUSB API, a JavaScript API that authenticates web applications to interact with local USB devices ...

The WebUSB standard is certainly controversial. Many consider it a security risk, and, to date, only Chromium-based browsers support it. But there is a workaround that is, ironically, supposed to ...

Apparently, it's a simple, safe way for Web pages to get direct access to USB devices. Considering the clusterfuck that I went through to get a cheque scanner working, I can certainly get behind ...