Web Bluetooth API

Category: Device
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 56)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Allows web sites to communicate over GATT with nearby user-selected Bluetooth devices in a secure and privacy-preserving way. Status in Chrome is more complicated than can be captured by this form. In Chrome 56, this shipped on Android, ChromeOS, and macOS. In Chrome 70 it is shipping on Windows 10. For earlier versions of Windows and Linux, it is still behind a flag (chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features).

Standards & signals

Specification: https://webbluetoothcg.github.io/web-bluetooth/
Firefox: Negative — Implementation bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204396
Safari: Negative — https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/ also lists Web Bluetooth.
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=419413

Docs: https://web.dev/bluetooth/ https://www.w3.org/community/web-bluetooth/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Bluetooth_API

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/web-bluetooth/ https://github.com/WebBluetoothCG/demos

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