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Desmond
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Impressive Updates in Chrome 81 !

Google Chrome's new update (81) introduced a massive improvement from Augmented Reality, NFC , Nicer default styling for form elements and many more..

How you can use NFC in Javascript


if ("NDEFReader" in window) {
  const reader = new NDEFReader();
  await reader.scan();
  reader.onreading = ({ message }) => {
    console.log(`Message read from a NFC tag: ${message}`);
  };
}
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Abdullah Atta • Edited

Wouldn't this be a better way to check for NFCReader support?

if (window.NDEFReader) {
// do something
}
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Desmond

That's possible..It's just a matter of preference

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rhymes

Thanks for the update! I haven't been keeping much up to date with Chrome lately.

I the main ones are Chrome only features though :(

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Desmond

Thanks for the references