Great discussions and apologies as I am checking this very very late. The purpose of my post was not to create buzz as some of you mentioned. I have been in the web industry since 2001 contributing in open source community, and author of an online PHP magazine since 2005. creating buzz was somehow part of my business, but not this time.

WebUSB was really a very cool approach to connect Web to USB devices in spite of all the security issues that you may or you may not face. I had the chance to work on it and see its limitations two years ago. I found out very small of successful implementations and solutions (Google use it to flash Android from the web, finally (: ).

To make this thread more interactive, I am adding a proof of concept of a code generator to generate WebUSB code :-) https://github.com/hatemben/usbmon

Feel free to fork/test and play with. It's true that there are tons of security issues related to WebUSB, and there are always solutions to security issues. For me WebUSB is dead two years ago, I just remembered to announce it last week.

-Hatem