[whatwg] Bluetooth

[Diogo Resende]

I forgot to mention that maybe only one bluetooth stack is relevant
here, the RFCOMM (serial). I think this makes the API more simple and
consistent (as USB and firewire are also serial).

-- 
Diogo


On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 15:56 +0100, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:50:07 +0100, Diogo Resende  
> <dresende at thinkdigital.pt> wrote:
> > This is exactly my point (and probably Don). I was not thinking about
> > common i/o devices. I was thinking about a way to somehow connect to an
> > uncommon device. Maybe something like websockets, maybe devsockets :P
> 
> Heh.
> 
> 
> > I can see 3 important steps to do this:
> >
> > - have a way expose diferent devices (so the app can search/list)
> >
> > - have permission to access a specific device (yes/no/remember)
> >   (the browser should do the bluetooth pairing stuff)
> 
> These two should be done via <device> I think. Giving blatant access to  
> external devices from web pages would be quite the security risk.
> 
> 
> > - talk to the device with some kind of stream/socket
> >
> > Does anyone think this could be a good idea?
> 
> I certainly think it's cool. :-)
> 
>