Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago
It would be quite difficult for an extension to detect if QR codes exsisted in
every page loaded, as this would require some sort of image processing.
However, lots of people use the Google Charts API to create QR codes, from
which the URL could be extracted. Doing this in the main function mightn't be
the best idea, however it might be an option in the Firefox extension which has
the option to right click on an image to send it.
How about that?
Original comment by patrick....@gmail.com
on 6 Aug 2010 at 3:22
Well, i'm not a chrome developer extension, but i found out that the QR codes
are just calls to Google Chart API. And the said calls embed the urls.
(I look at the download page for chrometophone : )
http://code.google.com/p/chrometophone/downloads/detail?name=chrometophone-andro
id.apk&can=2&q=
So, I figured that the extension would be able to find the call to the chart
API and extract the URL.
Well, that's theory :)
Again, i don't know how to get this working, but the code for the RSS chrome
extension :
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/test/data/extensions/subs
cribe_page_action/sniff_common.js?view=markup
... seems to be a good start. The code parse the page for a link to a rss feed.
What do you think ?
PS : of course, if many QR codes are found (which is always possible), that's
more complicated. Maybe all the links shall be sent...
Original comment by legabert...@gmail.com
on 6 Aug 2010 at 3:56
The point I was making was that not all QR codes ust the Chart API, however
lots of them do.
I'll look into setting it as a context menu option for the Firefox extension.
Original comment by patrick....@gmail.com
on 6 Aug 2010 at 4:01
Code has been committed for next version of the Firefox extension to recognise
if an image being sent is a Google Charts QR code and will send the URI instead
of the image URL. This will only work if the image is sent from the right-click
menu.
The issue will remain open until similar functionality can be included in the
Chrome release.
Original comment by patrick....@gmail.com
on 6 Aug 2010 at 10:41
As Chrome 6 is now stable, what about adding this functionality using the
"chrome.experimental.infobars" API.
i.e. once a user loads a page containing a QR code, they are prompted to send
it to their phone using ChromeToPhone
The same could be done for Market links also.
Original comment by patrick....@gmail.com
on 2 Sep 2010 at 11:23
as we are now on Chrome 13.0 already, is there any improvement? The QR codes
are everywhere these days, and the market links are a pain in the *** because
chrome can't open it itself (yet?). this would be a very nice feature.
Original comment by markroli...@gmail.com
on 10 Jun 2011 at 3:01
Issue 276 has been merged into this issue.
Original comment by aml...@gmail.com
on 5 Jul 2011 at 8:55
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
legabert...@gmail.com
on 6 Aug 2010 at 3:07