We oppose this feature and will not implement it. We do not believe a permission prompt is a sufficient mitigation for the serious security and privacy risks raised by this specification. In addition, we think exposing direct hardware access to the web is a bad idea and compromises the device-independence of the web platform. We can provide more details if desired but it may take a few days.
On Jan 5, 2020, at 11:40 PM, François Beaufort 🇫🇷 <fbeaufort@google.com> wrote:
Hello WebKit Dev folks,
Following Maciej's invitation to send requests for positions on Web API proposals to webkit-dev, we would like to know WebKit's position on Web NFC: https://w3c.github.io/web-nfc/ <https://w3c.github.io/web-nfc/>
Web NFC aims to provide sites the ability to read and write to nearby NFC devices. The current scope is limited to NDEF, a lightweight binary message format. Low-level I/O operations with the ISO-DEP protocol and Host-based Card Emulation (HCE) are not supported.
FYI, an intent to experiment will be posted soon on blink-dev. I'll update this webkit-dev thread with the URL when done.
TAG Review: https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/461 <https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/461> Chromestatus URL: https://www.chromestatus.com/features/6261030015467520 <https://www.chromestatus.com/features/6261030015467520> Mozilla standards-positions: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/238 <https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/238>
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