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> that Firefox doesn't support yet.

> This specification was published by the Web Bluetooth Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track.

It's not a Chrome API because nobody else supports it yet, it's a Chrome API because nobody other than Chrome is going to support it. Ideally, Chrome itself should remove their implementation.

The Web Bluetooth debacle is a good example of why new browser APIs shouldn't be turned on for end users by default until after they get far enough in the standards process that they we know they're not going to be rejected.




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