Re: URIs in QR (was: URI length statistics "in the wild"?)

> hello all.
> 
> > Yes, well if not using tinyurl.com or bit.ly.com, I think quite likely
> > that people encoding URIs in QR Codes will have a strong incentive to
> > keep them short. Most likely uses are for homepages, blogs, of people
> > and businesses, or lookups into databases (books, inventory etc).
> 
> interestingly, goo.gl (google's URI shortener) not only provides short 
> URIs, you can also get the QR for any short URI by just appending .qr to 
> it (which simply redirects to the google chart API using QR mode):
> 
> http://twitter.com/dret/status/11797022951
> 
> i have recently become very interested in QR, and from what i've found 
> out so far, while QR encoding/decoding (text2QR) is well-defined, the 
> landscape of what to expect and how to process it is very messy. many QR 
> programs fail to recognize anr/or properly decode URIs, using ad-hoc 
> methods and/or not recognizing URIs that are not http: URIs.
> 
> since i am very interested in the mobile landscape and particularly in 
> the mobile web, i would like to ask if anybody is interested in starting 
> some activity (maybe a W3C incubator group) that would survey the 
> landscape of existing "standards" and tools, and maybe even come up with 
> some best practices for how to use QR codes in a web-friendly way.
> 
> for example, just for fun i came up with this new office door sign:
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/dret/4498124087/

Cute.  Worked fine using my android phone aimed at my laptop screen.  I
suppose now I'll be needing a desktop app (maybe part of the screenshot
system) that recognizes QR codes in photos and videos displayed on my
desktop.   :-)

I don't personally know anything about QR codes, and this is the first
I've heard of a need for standardization, but as a W3C staff member, my
ears perked up there.  Yes, this looks like it might well be a good fit
for W3C.  It could be an incubator, like you suggest, or, if it's pretty
clear what a solution looks like, it could be a Submission and then a
Working Group.

Again, I don't know anything about QR codes, but I'm a bit surprised the
folks who defined them haven't tackled this problem.  Perhaps this needs
a new mix of URI and QR expertise.

     -- Sandro

Received on Thursday, 8 April 2010 16:28:15 UTC