Missing support for CCID USB devices

[jonasstrehle]

I ordered the cyberJack® RFID basis for testing out the USB reading capability of the browser using WebUSB. This reader acts as a Chip Card Interface Device (CCDI)

However it seems like the Chromium team blocked quite a bunch of devices that used to be accessible via this API.

Summary
The following set of USB interface classes, which should not be claimed using the WebUSB API, will be explicitly blocked by Blink: Audio, Video, HID, Mass Storage, Smart Card, Wireless Controller (Bluetooth and Wireless USB). These interface classes are already mostly blocked by an operating system’s built-in class drivers. This change establishes consistency across platforms.

Motivation
The WebUSB API is designed to provide a mechanism for device manufacturers and developers to build applications supporting novel hardware on the web instead of through native apps. As explained in the original Intent to Ship for WebUSB, most USB devices fall into one of a number of standardized device classes for which there are already high-level APIs provided by the Web Platform. For each of these interface classes the high-level API is the supported path and WebUSB is the unsupported path.

So, maybe we need to think about an alternative approach... using a smart card NFC reader thats is not using CCDI. Is something like this even possible?

Just wanted to share some information with you!
Feel free to answer in this thread.

[jonasstrehle]

Check out https://github.com/WICG/web-smart-card/blob/main/README.md!

[benStre]

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1386175

Currently being implemented at least in chrome :D
Looks to me like its coming in the next few Canary releases... but who knows

[benStre]

I don't think we need to pursue this topic further, until the Web Smart Card API is available.
The use cases are very limited anyway

[jonasstrehle]

Yeah, imho I guess if we‘d like to use the eID reader as „standalone“ application to create traffic on the unyt.org project the USB would be mandatory since the NFC api rollout is probably gonna take some years (decades for safari /s). So if there is an experimental API coming to the major browsers I guess we should continue on this topic and start to make the project public.