Is Accessing USB from web application for cross browser cross os possible at all ?

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Published on 2010-12-30T17:55:39Z Indexed on 2011/01/05 6:54 UTC
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Hey Guys,

I am wondering if there is anyway we can achieve this. I heard different things about Silverlight 4 , Java Script or Active X control but not seen any demo of code for any of them.

Does anyone know any web component that is available or how to write one.

We really like capture client's USB drive via Web and read/write data on it. This has to work for ANY Operating system in Any web browser.

Thanks

UPDATED

What about WPF in browser mode...I read that I can host my wpf apps inside browser and sort of like smart client.

Here is a great example of doing this via silverlight 4 but author mentions about possibility of accessing USB on MAC via

1) Enable executing AppleScripts. This option will let us have the same amount of control on a mac machine as we do on a windows machine.

2) Add an overload to ComAutomationFactory.CreateObject() that calls the “Tell Application” command under the scenes and gets a AppleScript object. This option would work extremely well for Office automation. For any other operating system feature, you’ll have to code OS access twice. 

I did not quite understand it. Has any tried this ?

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