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> "Why does a browser need to give access to a serial port"

Why does a program need to give access to a serial port?

> if you asked the average internet user 20 years ago if their browser should provide websites with access to their serial ports, you'd get laughed at

What if you included "Only if you allow it"?

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Web browsers used to be about websites, not applications. That's my point. It took years even after Gmail discovered the XmlHttpRequest for in-browser HTML applications to even become a thing people would just use.

> What if you included "Only if you allow it"?

You'd probably hear something like "IE/Opera is bloated enough already", I just want my downloads to finish faster.

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