WebHID (Human Interface Device)

Device

Enables web applications to interact with human interface devices (HIDs) other than the standard supported devices (mice, keyboards, touchscreens, and gamepads). However, there are many other HID devices that are currently inaccessible to the web. This API allows web applications to request access to these devices, send and receive HID reports, and retrieve information about the report descriptor.

Documentation

https://github.com/WICG/webhid/blob/master/EXPLAINER.md

Specification

Public discussion

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>HID

Behind a flag (tracking bug) in:

Chrome for desktop release 78

Consensus & Standardization

After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.

Firefox: No public signals
Edge: No public signals
Safari: No public signals
Web Developers: No signals

Owner

mattreynolds@chromium.org

Last updated on 2019-12-03