Show HN: my spare time project, an on-site QR image decoder
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Re: Show HN: my spare time project, an on-site QR image decoder
#2ok, besides the fact that this is the most non-existent use case in the history of QR codes ever, i would love to take a look at the source code if he really managed (and how he managed) to get a QR decoder in 1.5kb. sadly this is not (easily) possible because the script is base64img/canvas encoded, which is (his good right but non the less) very annoying.
Re: Show HN: my spare time project, an on-site QR image decoder
#3ok, besides the fact that this is the most non-existent use case in the history of QR codes ever, i would love to take a look at the source code if he really managed (and how he managed) to get a QR decoder in 1.5kb. sadly this is not (easily) possible because the script is base64img/canvas encoded, which is (his good right but non the less) very annoying.
He just uses JSONP-ajax to get result from "http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/qrgen/qrdecode_widget.php?.... It's a dumb idea to sell this for 15$
Re: Show HN: my spare time project, an on-site QR image decoder
#4It seems all this code does is send the image url to a remote server that does the decoding and returns the content. I'm actually not sure how this takes 1.5kb of code.
Re: Show HN: my spare time project, an on-site QR image decoder
#5ok, besides the fact that this is the most non-existent use case in the history of QR codes ever, i would love to take a look at the source code if he really managed (and how he managed) to get a QR decoder in 1.5kb. sadly this is not (easily) possible because the script is base64img/canvas encoded, which is (his good right but non the less) very annoying.
It's basically just a jslib that wraps a few divs around an image with a class and then does jsonp requests in order to decode the image - so, I'm sorry to say that but there's no real clientside decoding here
Re: Show HN: my spare time project, an on-site QR image decoder
#6ok, besides the fact that this is the most non-existent use case in the history of QR codes ever, i would love to take a look at the source code if he really managed (and how he managed) to get a QR decoder in 1.5kb. sadly this is not (easily) possible because the script is base64img/canvas encoded, which is (his good right but non the less) very annoying.
He just uses JSONP-ajax to get result from " http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/qrgen/qrdecode_widget.php?... . It's a dumb idea to sell this for 15$
we can start calling this the SimCity strategy:
1. pitch a software product (script/game)
2. sell a service
3. be misleading about itRe: Show HN: my spare time project, an on-site QR image decoder
#7ok, besides the fact that this is the most non-existent use case in the history of QR codes ever, i would love to take a look at the source code if he really managed (and how he managed) to get a QR decoder in 1.5kb. sadly this is not (easily) possible because the script is base64img/canvas encoded, which is (his good right but non the less) very annoying.
He just uses JSONP-ajax to get result from " http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/qrgen/qrdecode_widget.php?... . It's a dumb idea to sell this for 15$
+1
Re: Show HN: my spare time project, an on-site QR image decoder
#8ok, besides the fact that this is the most non-existent use case in the history of QR codes ever, i would love to take a look at the source code if he really managed (and how he managed) to get a QR decoder in 1.5kb. sadly this is not (easily) possible because the script is base64img/canvas encoded, which is (his good right but non the less) very annoying.
It's basically just a jslib that wraps a few divs around an image with a class and then does jsonp requests in order to decode the image - so, I'm sorry to say that but there's no real clientside decoding here
this should be mentioned on the page, otherwise it's misleading, it's a service, not a script, the script is just the interface to the service.
Re: Show HN: my spare time project, an on-site QR image decoder
#9Not sure I understand why this was even created in the first place. Wouldn't it suffice to simply spell out the content of the QR next to it, on hover or else? It's not like QR codes are born out of thin air; if you place a QR on your site then it's unlikely you don't know what data it represents.
Re: Show HN: my spare time project, an on-site QR image decoder
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's basically just a jslib that wraps a few divs around an image with a class and then does jsonp requests in order to decode the image - so, I'm sorry to say that but there's no real clientside decoding here
this should be mentioned on the page, otherwise it's misleading, it's a service, not a script, the script is just the interface to the service.
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