Top 3 Bikeshed shipping-chromium Projects

webusb

10 1,286 6.5 Bikeshed

Connecting hardware to the web.

Project mention: Why are websites requesting access to motion sensors on my desktop? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-28

> WebUSB is actually a W3C open standard.
This is misleading at best. Here’s what the actual spec says <https://wicg.github.io/webusb/>:
> This specification was published by the Web Platform Incubator Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track.
It’s an experimental spec by Google (observe the affiliation of the three editors: all Google); Mozilla has adopted a negative position on it <https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webusb>; WebKit has not remarked upon it.

file-system-access

16 641 5.0 Bikeshed

Expose the file system on the user’s device, so Web apps can interoperate with the user’s native applications.

Project mention: The web just gets better with Interop 2024 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-01

You can read about the privacy concerts the community group published [1].
[1]: https://wicg.github.io/file-system-access/#privacy-considera...

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ua-client-hints

13 575 4.4 Bikeshed

Wouldn't it be nice if `User-Agent` was a (set of) client hints?

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).