[HN Gopher] You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with...
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       You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108
        
       Author : LinuxBender
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2022-12-14 20:31 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
        
       | jacquesm wrote:
       | This is really good news, finally I can stop users of
       | pianojacq.com that they have to use Chrome or jump through all
       | kinds of hoops. Will test this out soon and change the code if
       | necessary to make it work.
        
       | rektide wrote:
       | It's such a cool capability. Adds so much creative possibility.
       | Huzzah.
       | 
       | I hope some day we get to a WebMIDI 2.0, to expose some of the
       | many many new super-rad features in MIDI 2.0.
       | 
       | This want iconifies a lot for me, as sensible & highly desireable
       | straighforwardhish follow-up I have little expectation we'll see
       | anytime soon. I generally love the web platform, find it does a
       | solid job, has decent API shape & decisions. Stuff gets made, &
       | pretty well. But there's definitely a dearth of spec workers &
       | browser maintainers out there to pitch in after the first drops,
       | especially after some 1.0 implementations make it out the door.
       | Just like in normal software development, there's a budget for
       | new development, but maintenance & improvement can be severely
       | lacking. Attention for what we have, tlc, is sparser than the
       | places where new things happen.
       | 
       | WebMIDI is alas one of these great worthy & amazing specs that at
       | some point we need to re-up, come around to again, and I want so
       | much to imagine that happening. I feel like WebShare (and Target)
       | was another great example- lots of really good improvements asked
       | for in issues, growing potential, but the interest from the top
       | has moved on.
        
       | cassepipe wrote:
       | Yay! And now pianojacq.com from HN member jmattheij does work in
       | Firefox! I can now uninstall chromium.
        
       | lproven wrote:
       | Another one of mine -- thanks, @LinuxBender!
        
       | SaintGhurka wrote:
       | I have a Casio 101 keyboard that I bought in 1987 and a $15 MIDI-
       | to-USB cable. It's hard to describe how satisfying it is to see
       | it continue to work as an input device for a computer
       | manufactured in 2022.
        
       | ilyt wrote:
       | I remember some Eurorack module used Web MIDI in it's
       | configuration app. It wasn't a pleasant experience back then.
       | 
       | Apple removing it is weird considering the platform prevalence
       | with musicians...
        
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