On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 09:13 -0800, David Singer wrote: > But there is still a whole OS, and a piece of hardware (the bluetooth chip) > between the browser and the bluetooth device. If the OS considers the device > 'visible' or 'connected' then it's available to the browser. It doesn't > matter what the means of connection is. Agree. Right now, it might be available to the browser, not the developer. There's no way to reach such devices.
> If you're suggesting that we should have ways of browsing what > devices/services > you *might* connect to (the equivalent of the panels that OSes offer to set up > pairing), on Bluetooth (or, I guess, the network), that raises a whole host of > questions and issues. I described the whole process but the search/pairing could still be done by the OS. > So I still think, if the OS thinks you can talk to it (it's paired or > connected), > the fact that Bluetooth is the 'wire' is irrelevant. If the OS does *not* > think > it's connected, then you're talking about establishing connectivity through > some > kind of browser/web-mediated interaction. The OS might find it and pair with it. The idea is that the OS might not know what kind of device it is but a web app might and should be able to "talk" in some way. > David Singer > Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc. >
