App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)

Post by niutech » Sun, Jan 05, 2025, 9:33 PM UTC

aeldidi wrote: post #309

Ajedi32 wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a bit curious about what's wrong with Bluetooth on the web. Is it just because Safari and Firefox don't support it yet?

It’s important to note that it’s not a matter of effort for Firefox. They’ve decided that the it’s not something they want to implement[1]. The reasoning is that they think it allows low enough level access to potentially mess with devices who weren’t made to be resilient to malicious input, and didn’t like that the proposed method of allowing web Bluetooth is based on a default allow policy with a blocklist, which m…

Post by gassi » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 3:49 AM UTC

evanjrowley wrote: post #119

This reasoning is why I'm keen to try out RomM[0], a ROM library manager that has EmulatorJS[1] built in. Rather than having to setup emulation on each device where I want to play a simple game, I can instead use this combination to do it from any web browser on my local network. [0] https://github.com/rommapp/romm [1] https://github.com/EmulatorJS/EmulatorJS