2011/8/3 Kornel Lesiński <[email protected]>: > On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:26:41 +0100, Tab Atkins Jr. <[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. >> >> It actually seems relatively useful, given that I use the >> barcode/QRCode reader in my phone quite a lot. > > Niche needs + inter-app communication sounds like something Web Intents > could do (http://webintents.org).
This was my first reaction too. Something like <input type=text method=barcodereader> could allow the browser to use a built-in barcode reader if it has one, or fire up a web app using webintents/webactivities which would use the camera to read the barcode. / Jonas
