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   Cato (cato@chaosfurs.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Nov-2025 21:34:12 JST Cato

   Someone somewhere at DB has written a QR code generator that outputs QR codes as HTML tables. I'm not sure if I should be impressed or horrified.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Nov-2025 22:39:14 JST SuperDicq

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     @cato@chaosfurs.social Isn't that a really good idea actually?
     
     Because if I'm not mistaken this means that their QR codes can also display correctly in text mode only browsers like Lynx.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 06-Nov-2025 00:12:09 JST SuperDicq

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     • Mirko Schenk

     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @mort@procial.tchncs.de @cato@chaosfurs.social Unfortunate.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 06-Nov-2025 00:12:10 JST 翠星石

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     • Mirko Schenk
     @SuperDicq @mort @cato lynx just doesn't render HTML tables at all.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 06-Nov-2025 00:12:11 JST SuperDicq

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     • Mirko Schenk

     @mort@procial.tchncs.de @cato@chaosfurs.social The only way to find out is if someone saved one of these DB QR codes as a .html file and tried to open it in Lynx. I'm curious about the result.

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     Mirko Schenk (mort@procial.tchncs.de)'s status on Thursday, 06-Nov-2025 00:12:12 JST Mirko Schenk

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     • SuperDicq

     @SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo @cato@chaosfurs.social
     I don't now how Lynx renders tables with whichever CSS/HTML attributes used for this (probably background style?). The background color could be ignored, there could be text lines around the cells, ...
     Even if it works, the rendered result likely isn't square. But most readers shouldn't have an issue with that.