Web NFC

Category: Device
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 89)
Intent stage: Shipped

Summary

Web NFC aims to provide sites the ability to read and write to NFC tags when they are brought in close proximity to the user’s device (usually 5-10 cm, 2-4 inches). The current scope is limited to NDEF, a lightweight binary message format. Low-level I/O operations (e.g. ISO-DEP, NFC-A/B, NFC-F) and Host-based Card Emulation (HCE) are not supported within the current scope.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://w3c.github.io/web-nfc/
Firefox: Negative
Safari: Negative
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=520391

Docs: https://web.dev/nfc/

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/web-nfc/

Explainers: https://github.com/w3c/web-nfc/blob/gh-pages/EXPLAINER.md

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