Post Azw6pq6vxUSuDPymLQ by jaseg@chaos.social
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 (DIR) Post #Azw60FTgOqs9pb1HAe by cato@chaosfurs.social
       2025-11-05T12:07:15Z
       
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       Someone somewhere at DB has written a QR code generator that outputs QR codes as HTML tables. I'm not sure if I should be impressed or horrified.
       
 (DIR) Post #Azw6p8p2u7bfxUHNzc by jaseg@chaos.social
       2025-11-05T12:11:24Z
       
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       @cato that’s honestly not the worst idea. Easily supports ancient devices that don’t do svg properly yet, is natively scalable, and probably even saves some data over anything except svg where you put the entire code into one big chonky path data.
       
 (DIR) Post #Azw6poin7lYjuFfz4i by mart_w@chaos.social
       2025-11-05T12:44:47Z
       
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       @jaseg @cato A 1-bit bitmap or even png with a 1:1 pixel mapping would be even more compact, wouldn't it? It would, however, come with the potential issue of browsers trying to be smart about the upscaling and ruining the pattern in the process
       
 (DIR) Post #Azw6pq6vxUSuDPymLQ by jaseg@chaos.social
       2025-11-05T12:47:12Z
       
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       @mart_w @cato exactly that upscaling is only properly supported on fairly recent browsers
       
 (DIR) Post #Azw9MoKvmAFIB3NNIm by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
       2025-11-05T13:39:05.937Z
       
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       @cato@chaosfurs.social Isn't that a really good idea actually?Because if I'm not mistaken this means that their QR codes can also display correctly in text mode only browsers like Lynx.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzwGCT8kQctNDkh2aO by mort@procial.tchncs.de
       2025-11-05T14:49:37.580Z
       
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       @SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo @cato@chaosfurs.social I don't now how Lynx renders tables with whichever CSS/HTML attributes used for this (probably background style?). The background color could be ignored, there could be text lines around the cells, ...Even if it works, the rendered result likely isn't square. But most readers shouldn't have an issue with that.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzwGCU0dCHzfuru4Zc by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
       2025-11-05T14:55:38.641Z
       
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       @mort@procial.tchncs.de @cato@chaosfurs.social The only way to find out is if someone saved one of these DB QR codes as a .html file and tried to open it in Lynx. I'm curious about the result.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzwGS5SOFXlyOzKOau by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
       2025-11-05T14:58:32.079031Z
       
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       @SuperDicq @mort @cato lynx just doesn't render HTML tables at all.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzwGbrOnN6yJhKJ57o by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
       2025-11-05T15:00:14.896Z
       
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       @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @mort@procial.tchncs.de @cato@chaosfurs.social Unfortunate.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzwGc33G30sFq0K3Dk by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
       2025-11-05T15:00:20.087835Z
       
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       @SuperDicq @cato @mort The table lines that is - it will go and tab indent the table values and that's about it.