web-midi

Does anybody knows if there's a browser whith Web MIDI support? ... I've tried the samples on http://webaudio.github.io/web-midi-api/ but they throw me an error that my navigator has not such properties. Im working on google-chrome and firefox. If, there's no browsers that support MIDI, when do u estimate we will have one, maybe in the next 2 years? According to this posting (dated June 28th 2013), "initial experimental support" for Web MIDI is now available in Chrome Canary. As of now, there are no browsers that support the Web MIDI API yet. First off, the spec isn't finalized yet and there

I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to access a Midi device (like a piano/keyboard or electronic drum set) that is plugged into to a clients USB port over the web. Obviously the browser security model makes this impossible using just javascript and while it looks like the emerging html5 device standard might help in the future it's apparently not there yet. So what about flash, silverlight or java? The closest I've found is that silverlight seems to be able to do it if the app is trusted, but that's not a very easy thing to convince a user to do. Any options? The only practical way (that

reference: Browsers in 2013 with Web MIDI API? I'm currently running Chrome 34.0.1847.116 on OS 10.9.2 and experimenting with the Web Midi API. After enabling chrome://flags/#enable-web-midi, I'm able to get a midiAccess object by pasting the following code from http://www.w3.org/TR/webmidi/ into the DevTools console. var midi = null; // global MIDIAccess object function onMIDISuccess( midiAccess ) { console.log( "MIDI ready!" ); midi = midiAccess; // store in the global (in real usage, would probably keep in an object instance) } function onMIDIFailure(msg) { console.log( "Failed to get MIDI