Thomas Steiner

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People interested in playing with the API _now_ can see https://github.com/WICG/direct-sockets/issues/46#issuecomment-1436664185.

I think one problem might be OS interoperability. For example, macOS doesn't seem to expose special directory actions. If VS Code is installed, VS Code could offer itself as a...

Can apps automatically add QuickActions? Is there an equivalent on other operating systems? On Windows 11, the "Show more options" reveals a secondary context menu where you can, for example,...

> Hmm, this is a tricky one indeed. My idea was that it would be somehow possible to control MacOS Automator from the terminal using some fancy commands and add...

Sounds good to me, we seem to have decent enough OS support then. The next step would be to drum up some developer excitement.

(You can play with this code at https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/browser-nativefs#live-demo.)

One of our partners would be interested in being notified when a device like a portable USB harddisk or a USB pen (aka. USB stick) is plugged into the system.

You can maybe build upon what I do in OPFS Explorer, which is essentially polling the directory recursively and then naively “hashing” over the string representation: https://github.com/tomayac/opfs-explorer/blob/f86be0405bef6c68532be3a9fd347eab89e511a1/contentscript.js#L5-L48 and https://github.com/tomayac/opfs-explorer/blob/f86be0405bef6c68532be3a9fd347eab89e511a1/devtools.js#L145. Improvement...

Probably more a suggestion for https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/154 (which was locked for unproductive contributions the last time I looked).