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> To access on the computer you'd need to download a program, on mobile you would need an app

You say it like it's a bad thing.

>Its like if you needed to download a new web browser for every website you visit, absolutely ridiculous.

I really do hope websites do not try and enumerate Bluetooth on their right own. I know I'd never enable access to Bluetooth to a browser.

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> You say it like it's a bad thing.

Actually the web is an OS: it has api for gui, for persistent data, for networking, for all kind of periphericals (gpu, gps, bluetooth) ... The problem you're raising (which i agree with) is that we already have an OS and we'd like to use that one.

Looking at the current chrome documentation it does not appear that web BLE offers the ability to enumerate. The browser pops up a dialog allowing the user to grant access to a specific device.

I think this is actually superior to the security offered by mobile apps on android, which can enumerate bluetooth devices as soon as they have bluetooth permission.

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