[HN Gopher] Dual-Link QR Code Generator
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       Dual-Link QR Code Generator
        
       Author : redbell
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2025-01-25 20:28 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (dualqrcode.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (dualqrcode.com)
        
       | fastfingertips wrote:
       | it works!
        
       | bryankaplan wrote:
       | I've long wished hyperlinks would permit multiple hrefs.
       | Hypertext could be more sophisticated.
       | 
       | Multi-link QR codes could be practically useful, provided an
       | interstice appears with the URLs and allows a person to follow
       | any of them or all of them.
        
         | weinzierl wrote:
         | They did. I think the idea with XML based hypertext was to have
         | links that are star-shaped with potentially multiple sources
         | and potentially multiple targets and the location where the
         | link is defined completely independent from any sources or
         | targets.
         | 
         | One application would have been that people publish link
         | collections and you could e.g read HN with the links I created.
         | 
         | There was a proposed standard for this but its name escapes me
         | for the moment.
         | 
         | Of course all of this never went farther than XHTML where it
         | took a sharp turn into a different direction.
        
       | redbell wrote:
       | Discussed in reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/s/dwHDKv2s7v
        
       | a2800276 wrote:
       | This is interesting and sets off a bunch of ideas. It might be
       | fun to generate a printed version that can differently depending
       | on how it's lit, either red/green or tricks with pwm'ing LEDs...
        
       | KenSF wrote:
       | as asked repeatedly and never answered on reddit, what is the use
       | case for this?
        
         | nadermx wrote:
         | Take a menu in a tourist spot, could have it go to both
         | languages
        
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