In praise of MIDI, tech’s hidden gift to humanity
One version to bind them all, and in the darkness rock them Opinion If you're not a musician, you may never think of MIDI, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface standard that links up keyboards and other electronic noise boxes. Firefox has, adding the super-niche Web MIDI API in its latest version. That's one of those "uh, OK" decisions which gets weirder the longer you look at it - but then, MIDI is utterly unlike other tech standards....