As reported in this very good overview of Web Bluetooth, this API is right now in pre-standardization in the Web Bluetooth Community Group under the lead of @jyasskin w3.org/community/web-bluetoo…
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The API enables connecting to and interacting with Bluetooth LE devices in Web browsers, providing low friction way to deploy apps for many BLE-based connected objects. webbluetoothcg.github.io/web…
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It is developed in the Github repo at github.com/WebBluetoothCG/we… and discussed in the mailing list archived at lists.w3.org/Archives/Public…
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There was discussions in bringing this work to the formal standardization track as part of the Device and Sensors Working Group a few months ago github.com/w3c/dap-charter/i…
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But we need more confirmed interests from browser vendors before going there… So far, it is only available in Chromium-based browsers caniuse.com/#feat=web-blueto…
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So if you have great use cases that justify more implementations of the API, follow the links to the various browser bug reports/feature request:
@firefox bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu…
@MSEdgeDev wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/2…
@webkit bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi…
Feb 7, 2018 · 1:21 PM UTC