[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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