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Re:WebUSB is dead by svnpenn on Monday February 03, 2020 @04:56PM (#22229650)
You used to be able to do this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application

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Re:WebUSB is dead by at_a_remove on Monday February 03, 2020 @04:57PM (#22229668)
Don't laugh but I made one of these last year, just needed something dead simple.
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Re:WebUSB is dead by svnpenn on Monday February 03, 2020 @05:38PM (#22230123)
For a more modern solution, you could use PHP or similar:

https://cup.github.io/rosso/html-application

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Re:WebUSB is dead by at_a_remove on Monday February 03, 2020 @05:47PM (#22230205)
No, I mean I made something that I didn't have to install anything for. PHP wasn't on the machine. But I could do .hta. Boom.
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Re:WebUSB is dead by bawolff on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:15PM (#22231316)
And now we have electron. Everything old is new again.
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