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 🇫🇷 <fbeauf...@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> > > Thank you, > Francois. > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
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