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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm never gonna give up on quite space.... well played btw

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, shitposts like this are never gonna let us down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I can’t imagine giving a fuck…

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

whats this?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know it's a shitpost but it's not really how that meme format is supposed to work

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Well, at least it worked.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm also bothered by very detailed QR codes. Milk cartons in my country had a QR-code for their website. It would be a ~10 letter url, maybe with a short path. But for some reason, the QR code was extremely detailed, as if it contained several kilobytes of data. I'm not sure if there were a large number of tracking-related parameters in the url, but it was very obviously unreasonably large.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Strongly agree on this one. Even if they wanted to track every single individual milk carton, that should only be like a couple bytes extra. Overly complex QR codes look ugly and are harder to scan

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The complexity is likely a product of redundancy and error correction in the QR code rather than making it unique. You begin to run into issues with camera resolution and whatnot, but in theory those codes are likely more reliable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

QR codes have built in redundancy and error correction, though. I guess if they had it turned up to the max for some reason?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yeah, qr codes have different levels of error correction that you can specify, could very be well turned up to the max

or the url has a ton of tracking params appended to it for some reason

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

or the url has a ton of tracking params appended to it for some reason

Ideally you should use a short URL that redirects to the full URL. The tracking parameters should be on the long URL, not the short one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is that ideal? Seems more prone to problems if the short URL service shuts down or suffers outages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You don't have to use a third-party short URL service. It can be hosted on your own site.

A lot of people are already using a third-party short URL service like qrco.de because they don't realise you don't actually need a service like that to make a QR code.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Regardless, why bother running or using a short URL service? QR codes can easily hold a full URL and more, and QR codes are not (nor are they meant to be) human readable, so what's the benefit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah - that'd be my guess for an over-complicated code with minimal info.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Scan one and find out

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's like putting a glass of water right on the edge of the table. Give it some space ffs.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

everything is. whitespace is an important part of graphic design, especially margins. think about text that's too close to the edge is the page or screen.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

especially margins

Since it has the background color of the QR code, it’s probably padding, not margin.

^someone please rescue me from frontend dev^

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Here here, have some Chai. Take a break and everything.should.be.ok

Edit: I've been free from web dev too long and it shows. Don't even know my assertions anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

i was speaking generally, which is why I mentioned pages as well as screens. that's more of a web design distinction; never really heard of padding in any other context.

but if you were to have a qr code on your website, you're right, making it padding would make more sense since the border, real or imaginary, would be outside the quiet zone because it's technically part of the code.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

that's more of a web design distinction

I think that was the point of "someone rescue me from frontend dev" - if they're doing so much frontend design work that they instinctively get pedantic about padding vs. margin, they need help.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

yeah I know, but that's still information out there and if anyone's reading it's nice to clarify. I both clarified and situationally agreed with them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is now. That's the beauty of art.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

did you mean to reply to something else?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hm, it was supposed to be indeed. It was the comment about the meme format

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (3 children)

the bottom one is not a qr code. The padding is part of it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

padding

Found the developer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everyone must submit to the CSS box model!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

i hate coding for browsers. To that end, I do not actually know css. I just called it padding when I wrote my own qr code library, because it was easier to say than "quiet zone".

Just like "dots" or "pixels" are easier to say than "modules"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Yes, the Quiet Zone is part of the QR spec.

But the bottom one is still a QR code, it's just an out-of-spec QR code. Most QR readers will still process it just fine, but there's greater room for error depending on what surrounds the code itself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah... I'm pretty sure the white space is part of the spec for a QR code.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's not just ugly, they don't scan properly. I've had this problem many times on codes without padding because my email client or browser was set to use a dark theme.

It often goes unnoticed because most people are using a white or clear background that gives enough contrast.

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