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So does this mean Chrome Remote Desktop is going to be a Chrome OS exclusive by early 2017?
They will probably port that, and Hangouts, Google Drive and others, to extensions, I think.
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Websites with hardware access? what could possibly go wrong? Browsers already are a overly complex security nightmare. Moreover the recent example of this stupid but rather simple battery API has shown us several, some more and some less obvious ways of how it can be abused. But sure Google will implement WebUSB and all sort of other shit they may imagine, the others will follow as always. In the end the browser will…
What's the alternative? If an app needs such functionality to work and it cannot work within a browser, the user will have to install a native app which aren't nearly as well sandboxed right now (Windows, Mac, Linux).
> the alternative? [...] install a native app which aren't nearly as well sandboxed right now (Windows, Mac, Linux).
err, the sandboxing works because web APIs don't already expose things which are suggested to be exposed here. Exposing them will break that "sandbox", to a certain (major) degree, atleast.
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The article mentions using Electron or NW.js if you want to continue building apps on web technologies that need deeper platform access. Is there a reason that those are worse options than Chrome apps?
It's possible but it's not an easy switch. And god help you if you have to mix native code with Electron. Getting a node-gyp toolchain spun up on Windows is a complete and total nightmare. Add Electron and its very specific version of Node into the mix (which totally confused node-gyp) and it's really awful.
npm install --global node-gyp
npm install --global --production windows-build-toolsThis is going to be really annoying since hardware access from HTML5 is still very rough and not even standardized. Stuff like talking to a serial port isn't even on the radar (so good luck programming a board like BBC micro:bit, Arduino, etc. without a native app), and efforts like WebUSB are still extremely early and not even a full standard. I feel like the product managers making this decision are completely obli…
Websites with hardware access? what could possibly go wrong? Browsers already are a overly complex security nightmare. Moreover the recent example of this stupid but rather simple battery API has shown us several, some more and some less obvious ways of how it can be abused. But sure Google will implement WebUSB and all sort of other shit they may imagine, the others will follow as always. In the end the browser will…
This is going to be really annoying since hardware access from HTML5 is still very rough and not even standardized. Stuff like talking to a serial port isn't even on the radar (so good luck programming a board like BBC micro:bit, Arduino, etc. without a native app), and efforts like WebUSB are still extremely early and not even a full standard. I feel like the product managers making this decision are completely obli…
Did you place a bet on this technology? Tell us about it.
This is going to be really annoying since hardware access from HTML5 is still very rough and not even standardized. Stuff like talking to a serial port isn't even on the radar (so good luck programming a board like BBC micro:bit, Arduino, etc. without a native app), and efforts like WebUSB are still extremely early and not even a full standard. I feel like the product managers making this decision are completely obli…
To be fair, did many people actually place a significant 'bet' on Chrome Web Apps? Even from the beginning that wouldnt sound like a very wise bet.
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Did you place a bet on this technology? Tell us about it.
I did, I wanted a multi-platform GUI with USB access for my milling machine software.
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After thinking some more... Maybe Play Store for Windows and Play Store for OS X will launch real soon... as Play Store for Chrome. In Chrome OS they're currently adding the Play Store to select hardware including x86 laptops using ... "container" technology. In Chrome OS these apps will start to stop being available in about a year. In Chrome on Windows and Mac they are losing access to these apps, the vast vast vas…
Yes. The browser is already like second OS. So if Google provides the Android API through Chrome. And if Chrome comes with PlayStore, then a lot of people will be able to run Android apps on Windows 7+, macOS and Linux. And as a next step, people will ask themself why not just buy a notebook with Android and run 1-2 legacy apps via Wine or whatever. And the new announced (on Github) Fuchsia OS that may replace some r…