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Re:Improv Wi-Fi: Open Standard for Setting Up Wi-Fi via Blue... by denton-scratch on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:08AM (#27537595)
"Your browser is not supported"

Only works with Edge and Chrome? Firefox user here, what have they done that makes it incompatible with web standards?

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Re:Improv Wi-Fi: Open Standard for Setting Up Wi-Fi via Blue... by looperhacks on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:26AM (#27537734)
> Improv provisioning also works in browsers that support WebBluetooth

Firefox and Safari (and quite many other browsers) do not support WebBluetooth

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Re:Improv Wi-Fi: Open Standard for Setting Up Wi-Fi via Blue... by ryankrage77 on Thursday June 17, 2021 @10:21AM (#27539870)
> The standard should work without requiring the device to contain a screen

How are they going to meet this goal if they can't even get it to work in a major browser?

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Re:Improv Wi-Fi: Open Standard for Setting Up Wi-Fi via Blue... by dzamlo on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:24AM (#27537720)
They use WebBluetooth which is not supported by Firefox.
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