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If you need a QR code to go to a web page, then all the info contained in a QR code is useless. Just show the url and let people scan it or key it in. If it is
by Kilimanjaro 14y ago
If you need a QR code to go to a web page, then all the info contained in a QR code is useless. Just show the url and let people scan it or key it in.
If it is an informational site, then wikipedia should develop and encourage the use of a standard wiki url shortener.
If it is a product, companies should also define an easy standard to shorten their products url.
- jcromartie 14y agoThey are useful as a quick way to get to a web page on a device, if there's no short URL. I don't use marketing QR codes, but I have used them for technical material.
- Kilimanjaro 14y agoAs always, I propose something like a non-for-profit DNS for storing pairs of codes and urls so all apps can access that site for free. And a simple nomenclature like: @ for places like @eiffeltower to http://wikipedia.com/eiffel_tower # for products like #mbair565 to http://apple.com/macbookair * for everything else like *google to http://google.com I propose google or wikipedia to take the initiative. * Or to make it simpler, just use square brackets as scanning delimiters [eiffeltower] [mbair565] [google]
- mmcnickle 14y ago[google] does this go to http//google.com or http://wikipedia.com/Google http://wikipedia.com/Google? URLs are as expressive as they need to avoid these namespacing issues. A custom system like yours is going to run up against naming collisions very quickly.