Andrea, because iOS doesn’t support NFC natively you will never be able to do this without some app in the middle. With FloJack that app can be NFC Actions (supported on iOS6 only). For our new reader in development, it communicates via Bluetooth and iOS offers the ability to launch an app in response to an event. So, in effect, this will allow you to scan an NFC tag and prompt the opening of the NFC Actions app so that the tag data can be pasted in a web form. That’s the best we can do though, you’ll need to have the app installed.

Richard.

Andrea, I’m glad you got something working. Your solution does use *an app*, namely the browser app. With native functionality the NFC supported OS’s are able to read NFC scans and launch an appropriate app. In your case the browser and USB reader are leveraging the HID driver to emulate keyboard input. This has a few drawbacks, most notable is the lack of data access control. Since HID is for input only, you can’t access tag data that involves more complex methods like encrypted access or selective data blocks.