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Web Bluetooth Community Group
Web Bluetooth Community Group
Bluetooth is a standard for short-range wireless communication
between devices. This group is developing a
specification
for Bluetooth APIs
to allow websites to communicate with devices in a secure and privacy-preserving way. In particular the web Bluetooth API focuses on minimizing the device attack surface exposed to malicious websites, possibly by removing access to some existing Bluetooth features that are hard to implement securely. Further, the API takes the approach of a user interface to
select and approve access to devices as opposed to using certification
and installation.
Most of our activity happens in our
GitHub repository
, with supporting code in adjacent repositories in the
WebBluetoothCG GitHub
organization
WebBluetoothCG/web-bluetooth
Group's public email, repo and wiki activity over time
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Testing Web Bluetooth Apps with Puppeteer
Vincent Scheib
Posted on:
January 17, 2024
In
Evelyn Masso describes how to automate testing of Web Bluetooth applications using Puppeteer.
GATT Communication is shipped in Chrome on Android, Mac, and ChromeOS
Francois Beaufort
Posted on:
February 8, 2017
The Chrome team has
announced
a subset of the Web Bluetooth API is now enabled in Chrome on Android, Chrome OS, and Mac. The GATT Communication API enables users to select Bluetooth devices and pair them to a web site, e.g. to control a toy or interact with a retail kiosk. This enables greater convenience, and less security risk (via least privilege), than installation of a native application.
Check out the updated
Chrome implementation status page
to learn more about what is currently shipped and
what is coming next
The Web Bluetooth Security Model
Vincent Scheib
Posted on:
April 6, 2016
Jeffrey Yasskin’s article on Medium discussing
The Web Bluetooth Security Model
Web Bluetooth experimental in Chrome on Android and Chrome OS
Vincent Scheib
Posted on:
November 18, 2015
At the Chrome Developer Summit we announced the latest milestones in Web Bluetooth being available in Chrome for Android and Chrome OS. We also discussed the great match with the Physical Web project. Check out the video:
Demo source code:
Interesting TPAC breakout sessions
Jeffrey Yasskin
Posted on:
October 28, 2015
If you’re at
W3C TPAC
, there are some interesting
breakout sessions
today.
I’m running a session in room 108 from 14:30 to 15:30 on
device APIs (including Bluetooth, NFC, USB and more), their privacy implications, and the permissions we should ask users about when granting access
Mark Foltz is running a session on
improving interoperability between NFC, Bluetooth, Sensors, Presentation, etc.
in room 104 from 16:00 to 17:00.
Please comment here if there are other sessions especially interesting to Web Bluetooth folks.
Meeting at TPAC
Jeffrey Yasskin
Posted on:
October 26, 2015
We’re meeting
Monday afternoon at 3pm in room 201
together with the Web NFC group. If we need more time, we’ll also meet in
a hallway session about 3pm Tuesday
My apologies for not getting this up on the CG page before TPAC started.
Developer preview on ChromeOS
Jeffrey Yasskin
Posted on:
July 22, 2015
The Chrome team has just announced a
developer preview for the Web Bluetooth API on ChromeOS’ dev channel
. It’s still
missing a bunch of pieces
, but you can discover a device and read and write its characteristics.
Please try it out and file bugs, both against the
spec
and the
implementation
Web Bluetooth ChromeOS Developer Preview Demo 2015-07-17
Vincent Scheib
Posted on:
July 17, 2015
Github is where we’re working!
Vincent Scheib
Posted on:
March 21, 2015
The group has been busy on GitHub, primarily with
specification work
, but also  with supporting code in adjacent repositories in the
WebBluetoothCG GitHub organization
Participate using
GitHub’s tools
which enable
following
projects, filing
issues
(e.g.
spec issues
), submitting
pull requests
, etc.
Email notifications
make following along easy!
First Chromium demo
Vincent Scheib
Posted on:
January 7, 2015
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