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> Everything from networking to graphics to midi

Wow, I had to look it up: (midi) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MIDIAccess Chrome and Opera only it seems. So no excuse for Firefox having a complex codebase!

But yes, browsers are operating systems in every sense except that they target another operating system and not bare metal.

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Browser MIDI is kinda half-baked- you can use it to do most MIDI things, but it’s not visible to the rest of your MIDI network. So, for example, you can make a web page that functions as a MIDI synth, but your recording studio app won’t be able to select it as output.

Also, they expose MIDI messages as arrays of bytes rather than parsing them, which is a weird choice

I recently discovered Chrome had MIDI as well while looking for a music sight-reading app. Unfortunately, Chrome for iOS does not support it even though Android does.

That’s because chrome isn’t allowed to ship it’s own engine on apple’s platform.

Chrome for iOS is essentially safari with a wrapper for syncing some data.

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