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Web NFC Community Group
The Web NFC Community Group will create a Near Field Communication API that is browser-friendly
and adheres to the Web's security model. We believe that means the API will not expose full,
low level NFC functionality, but rather a higher level subset that is safe for Web pages,
protects user privacy, and does not annoy users with unnecessary or complex permission requests.
See the
Web NFC Community Group Charter
and the
Web NFC specification
for more information.
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2015-05-15
Web NFC
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Web NFC API ships in Chrome
Anssi Kostiainen
Posted on:
January 11, 2021
Inspired by the community’s enthusiastic response to
the previous milestone that made the Web NFC API available to early adopters
, the team behind the Web NFC API has been busy during 2020 perfecting the API for the next major milestone!
Today, I am beyond excited to announce the
Web NFC API
is shipping in Chrome 89 for Android by default! Thanks to the early adopter feedback received during 2020, the new API in Chrome 89 is even easier to use and offers the most flexible NDEF support optimized for your key use cases.
If you’re a web developer and want to learn more, please check out the most excellent
developer documentation
that explains with easy to understand code examples how to scan and write to NFC tags and interface with other exciting capabilities of this API.
The Web NFC API is available now in Chrome
Dev
and
Canary
channels and is coming to
Beta
in Jan 28 – Feb 4, 2020 and hits
Stable
in March 2, 2020.
Happy hacking with this new web capability! 🚀
Anssi Kostiainen
, Web NFC Community Group Chair
Web NFC reaches a key milestone
Anssi Kostiainen
Posted on:
December 17, 2019
Since its inception in 2015, the
Web NFC Community Group
has been exploring means to allow web sites to read and write to nearby NFC (Near Field Communication) devices (e.g., tags and phones) in a secure and privacy preserving manner.
I’ve had an honor to lead this passionate group of people on this journey and see how the early (some said crazy!) idea has grown and gathered a passionate community and fans around it. Thanks to encouraging feedback from a diverse group of browser engineers, spec authors, web developers, NFC technology, usability and privacy experts, and the
inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee himself
, the Web NFC capability is now exposed through an ergonomic yet capable API able to support both emerging and established NFC use cases. What has remained throughout the years is the focus on a lightweight binary message format called NDEF that works across different tag formats, and provides a stable foundation to build on in the future.
Today, I’m thrilled to announce the group has reached the point at which it feels the
Web NFC specification
explainer
) and its
Chromium implementation
are ready for broader ecosystem feedback. You should see Web NFC pop up in Chrome’s
Active Trials
in January 2020, and if you just can’t wait, you can try Web NFC already today using
Chrome Canary on Android
by toggling the “enable-webnfc” flag.
Happy experimentation!
Anssi Kostiainen
, Web NFC Community Group Chair
First Draft of Web NFC API published by Web NFC Community Group
W3C Team
Posted on:
May 15, 2015
On 2015-05-15 the
Web NFC Community Group
published the first draft of the following specification:
Web NFC API
Participants
contribute material to this specification under the
W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA)
If you have any questions, please contact the group on their public list: public-web-nfc@w3.org. Learn more about the
Web NFC Community Group
Call for Participation in Web NFC Community Group
W3C Team
Posted on:
March 12, 2015
The
Web NFC Community Group
has been launched. See the
Web NFC Community Group Charter
and
NFC input specification
for more information. Anssi Kostiainen will be the initial Chair.
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