On top of that, the vast majority of these readers just translate it back to text. It's just another input "device", as barcodes are fixed (and sometimes standardized) fonts.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode ------Original Message------ From: Anne van Kesteren Sender: [email protected] To: WHATWG To: Mikko Rantalainen Subject: Re: [whatwg] input type=barcode? Sent: Aug 3, 2011 17:21 On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:52:03 +0200, Mikko Rantalainen <[email protected]> wrote: > What do you think? Implementing this seems rather complicated for such a niche use. It also seems better to let sites handle this by themselves so these physical codes can evolve more easily. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/ --- Sent from my BlackBerry
