WebUSB exclusionFilters option in requestDevice()

Category: Capabilities (Fugu)
Type: Chromium catches up
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 117)
Intent stage: None

Summary

The "exclusionFilters" option in navigator.usb.requestDevice() allows web developers to exclude some devices from the browser picker. It can be used to exclude devices that match a broader filter but are unsupported.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://wicg.github.io/webusb/#dom-usbdevicerequestoptions-exclusionfilters
Firefox: No signal — [1] Both Gecko and WebKit are unlikely to object to this feature specifically, but object to the overall WebUSB API as a whole, hence it doesn't make sense to bug them with specific questions on this.
Safari: No signal — [1] Both Gecko and WebKit are unlikely to object to this feature specifically, but object to the overall WebUSB API as a whole, hence it doesn't make sense to bug them with specific questions on this.
Web developers: Positive — https://github.com/WICG/webusb/issues/232
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1455392

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