- From: Kenneth Rohde Christiansen via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 07:31:32 +0000
- To: public-web-nfc@w3.org
@reillyeon the background is that there are NFC-like tags that offer NDEF etc but don't work with all readers as they are not following the standard. Mifare Classic is a common example of this and it can only be written to and read by phones that have an NFC chip made by NXP. If it for instance has a NFC chip made by say Sony (like my old phone) they these tags cannot be read at all. I think that comes as a surprise to many people as these tags are often sold as just being NFC tags, though they are not, so this sets the expectations straight. The tags are basically proprietary and the web is about standards so you could ague that we should ignore them. But they are quite popular and from talking to potential users of Web NFC, there are valid use-cases. For instance, I talked to a company where the keycards are Mifare Classic and they want to use Web NFC to easily tap a keycard and a NFC sticker on a room to reserve meeting rooms. -- GitHub Notification of comment by kenchris Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/web-nfc/issues/160#issuecomment-496820154 using your GitHub account
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