[HN Gopher] Show HN: Create a QR code with text in the code pattern
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       Show HN: Create a QR code with text in the code pattern
        
       Author : koch
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2020-12-19 22:16 UTC (43 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (qr.new)
 (TXT) w3m dump (qr.new)
        
       | miguelrochefort wrote:
       | Can the text be different from the content of the QR code?
        
         | boogies wrote:
         | Yes (source: 30 seconds spent trying it)
        
         | lights0123 wrote:
         | Yeah, the "Inner message" on the right is a completely separate
         | field from the actual QR contents on the left.
        
         | koch wrote:
         | Yes! The text in the QR code is completely independent of the
         | content, just edit the text field under the QR code.
        
       | difosfor wrote:
       | Looks cool, but the generated QR codes link to qr.new instead of
       | the domain I entered to link to. This is on iPad Safari. Is it
       | required to register before this will work as expected? It's
       | unclear to me.
        
         | koch wrote:
         | There are two 'types' of codes you can make, one is a regular
         | redirect to the link you enter (Link QR), the other takes you
         | to a qr.new page that has the information you entered on it
         | (Everything QR). So make sure you have the right type selected
         | and that you've put your link in the link field.
         | 
         | Action item for me though, I need to make that clearer on the
         | site.
        
           | koch wrote:
           | I went ahead and changed Link QR to say "Redirect" and
           | replaced "Link to a website" under Everything Qr with "Text,"
           | hopefully that clears some confusion.
        
           | lights0123 wrote:
           | There's definitely a problem though: when I edit the URL as a
           | Link QR (e.g. changing .com to .co), the little checkmark
           | changes to a spinner then back to a checkmark, but the QR
           | code does not change at all. No error messages in the console
           | other than two script-src CSP errors.
        
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