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weißelstone	2010-07-06 , 13:22
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Originally Posted by Shiprat

Another feature i would like is instant following of links.
I was at a microsoft breakfast-meeting sorta thing where one guy gave me his card which had a 3d bar-code. When scanned it directly opened internet explorer and went to the url of his profile on some microsoft windows phone page.

Are you sure it is 3D? mbarcode supports these 2D-barcodes here (this points to t.m.o):

If they contain a link it will automatically open it in the default browser.
there is also a Firefox plugin that wil create these codes if you right-click on a link so that you can directly scan it from the screen. I guess this is exactly what you are looking for.

EDIT: The code in this post is a DataMatrix code, don't know if mbarcode supports it but it supports QRCodes like this:

Now I also saw that 3D means 2D with colors, well, as already said, these are not supported yet (and unneeded for links in my opinion, who uses links longer than 256 signs?).
EDIT2: Just tested, it supports both 2D types.

Last edited by weißelstone; 2010-07-06 at 13:31.

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