On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM 'Kagami Rosylight' via [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Given there are multiple implementations now, is there a discussion to > move it to an actual standards body? (WICG is not a standards body) I've pinged some folks internally, thanks! > > > On Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 3:53:27 PM UTC+1 Greg Stoll wrote: > >> Summary: The Web Serial API provides a way for websites to read and write >> from a serial device through script. Such an API can bridge the web and the >> physical world, by allowing websites to communicate with devices such as >> microcontrollers, 3D printers, and other serial devices. >> Since serial devices are not generally hardened against adversarial >> input, Firefox will gate this capability behind a site permission add-on, >> in a very similar way to WebMIDI. See >> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/site-permission-add-ons for more >> information. >> >> Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926940 >> >> Specification: https://wicg.github.io/serial/ >> >> Standards Body: Web Platform Incubator Community Group draft report. >> >> Platform coverage: all Desktop OS's (Windows, Mac, Linux) >> >> Preference: dom.webserial.enabled (note that the Web Serial code has not >> landed yet) >> >> Link to standards-positions discussion: >> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/336 >> >> Other browsers: >> - Blink: Shipped since version 89 >> - WebKit: negative position ( >> https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/#anti-fingerprinting ) >> >> web-platform-tests: >> https://wpt.fyi/results/serial?label=experimental&label=master&aligned >> - There will be additional Gecko-specific tests that use a test-only >> serial interface. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > [email protected]" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/d7eed720-c993-4ac7-a065-cf589e70bcacn%40mozilla.org > <https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/d7eed720-c993-4ac7-a065-cf589e70bcacn%40mozilla.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Thomas Steiner, PhD—Developer Relations Engineer (blog.tomayac.com, toot.cafe/@tomayac) Google Spain, S.L.U. Torre Picasso, Pl. Pablo Ruiz Picasso, 1, Tetuán, 28020 Madrid, Spain CIF: B63272603 Inscrita en el Registro Mercantil de Madrid, sección 8, Hoja M-435397 Tomo 24227 Folio 25 ----- BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE ----- Version: GnuPG v2.4.8 (GNU/Linux) iFy0uwAntT0bE3xtRa5AfeCheCkthAtTh3reSabiGbl0ck 0fjumBl3DCharaCTersAttH3b0ttom.xKcd.cOm/1181. ----- END PGP SIGNATURE ----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/CALgRrL%3DWXe69-%2B83MB9VPRfFPtSxqRLb6NM8rkQohqd-pZ30Mg%40mail.gmail.com.
