[TexanFeller]

I want code running in a browser to stay in its sandbox, a large motivation for web apps in the first place is that they stay safely sandboxed and ephemeral. I think browsers accessing hardware is a terrible mistake, they make a terrible “OS” and trying to use the web as the default platform for all apps has set our industry back decades.

[lxgr]

I like the sandboxing properties of my browser, and wish I could run as many of my local applications and utilities in it or in something comparable.

Part of that is being able to access hardware, and missing that functionality will expose data on my computer to malicious or compromised applications or scripts.

Hardware access obviously has to be on a very strict opt-in basis. For all the things Apple is regularly trailing behind other browsers or outright botching, I think letting only "installed PWAs" send push notifications and persist state more than 7 days between visits is directionally the right thing to do, and hardware access would be much less critical limited that way.