Re:Firefox 73
by robbrown451 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @02:41PM
(#22301912)
Its lack of MIDI support is still holding me back. They've been talking about it for years. Till then I'm on Chromium, sorry. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836897
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Fascinating (and disappointing..) comment thread about implementing the WebMIDI API in Firefox.
The issue was reported (7 years ago) by Chris Wilson, who's been at Google working on WebAudio stuff for years and has published lots of related articles and repos. I'm a big fan. https://github.com/cwilso
There's even a comment from someone at Ableton, expressing interest and support ("testing with preliminary builds as well as providing hardware for implementers to test with"). That was 2 years ago, and no one from Firefox engaged them?! Sounds like a huge missed opportunity.
Sadly, the last comment a year ago was from a person no longer at Mozilla, saying the issue is stalled and that it's "very low priority work".
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Edit: Aah, now I'm imagining what might have been, a collaboration between Firefox and Ableton, would have been so cool..
Re:Firefox 73
by FrankBooth on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @08:59PM
(#22305065)
"The major blocker right now is security issues related to device firmware hijacking." - https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/58
Re:Firefox 73
by robbrown451 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:17PM
(#22302335)
You can toggle it on but it doesn't actually work.
You can use chromium for MIDI support and FF for everything else.
Most people don’t want to keep changing web browsers for every task. In particular if you do a lot of work (be it paid or a hobby) in a technology your web browser lacks, it’s less frustrating to use for everything the one that has the feature.