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This announcement from last October is a huge deal.

"Meet Face ID and Touch ID for the Web" https://webkit.org/blog/11312/meet-face-id-and-touch-id-for-...

Well, Safari and Chrome being the two giants in the room mean they also keep each other in check.

Safari may support Face ID and Touch ID, but I doubt it would be in anybody else's best interest to also support it.

Not that it matters anyway, since on iOS they all use Safari...

If you read the parent post, the support is implemented on top of WebAuthn standard, so as far as developers are concerned, they don’t have to do anything Safari-specific to support it - their code will work fine with YubiKey or other Authenticators as well. Which is the point of web standards after all.

https://webauthn.io/

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