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Comment by VoxPelli | Hacker News Reader

Google themselves just made it possible to flash Android devices from within the browser, by using WebUSB: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/01/flashing-a...

I interpret the definition of "dead" here to be:

  No other implementation than the one in Chrome

Rather than:

  No implementation or spec work at all

I sure consider anything only working in one browser to be dead.

Now that might change as we soon will only have one browser.

I would say it's "bad", but "dead" isn't the right term for me in that case

I think you’ve confused “so far has failed to take off” with “dead”.