The Little QR Code That Could Tutorial

The Little QR Code That Could Tutorial

Is it wrong to feel for an inanimate object? We’ll leave that one to the experts!

But we’ve been guilty of naming many inanimate objects. For heaven’s sake, we slept with some Peck’s Paste we were given for Christmas when we were … perhaps … 63?! And then there was that polyarmoured bat at … perhaps … 66?! How time flies?!

Yesterday, though, we were moved, discovering a discarded parking ticket, perhaps, containing a QR Code … all crushed and forlorn and forgotten.

How many QR Codes is humanity going to subject to being crushed and forlorn and forgotten !?!#!?@

Will you please get back to me on this?!

Anyway, then we thought, pulling out the mobile with it’s Camera app …

Can this crushed and forlorn and forgotten QR Code be repurposed !?!#!?@

Will you please get back to me on this?! Oh yeah, that’s why we’re here today … that’s right … we wrote a web application for the honour of …

This crushed and forlorn and, now, not so forgotten QR Code.

We decided making this web application, we’d start using our recent Image Map creation logic “lead in” which got us to a first draft HTML and Javascript (and image map) web application, and then the more sophisticated … like … second draft, featuring this new overlay related Javascript function …


function placeiframe(inurl) {
document.getElementsByTagName('area')[0].title='Looking for QR Code now ...';
if (eval('' + thefour.length) == 0) {
thefour=('' + document.getElementsByTagName('area')[0].coords).split(',');
}
if (inurl.toLowerCase().indexOf('http') == 0) {
document.getElementById('myif').style.position='absolute';
document.getElementById('myif').style.left='' + thefour[0] + 'px';
document.getElementById('myif').style.top='' + thefour[1] + 'px';
document.getElementById('myif').style.width='' + eval(90 + eval(eval('' + thefour[2]) - eval('' + thefour[0]))) + 'px';
document.getElementById('myif').style.height='' + eval(70 + eval(eval('' + thefour[3]) - eval('' + thefour[1]))) + 'px';
document.getElementById('myif').style.marginLeft='265px';
document.getElementById('myif').style.marginTop='180px';
document.getElementById('myif').style.transform='scaleX(2)';
//document.getElementById('myif').src='//www.rjmprogramming.com.au/recording_ideas.php?noinitialwo=y#' + inurl.trim();
document.getElementById('myif').src='/recording_ideas.php?noinitialwo=transparent#' + inurl.trim();
document.getElementById('myif').style.display='block';
document.getElementById('myif').style.zIndex='999';
//document.getElementsByTagName('area')[0].style.zIndex='9999';
//document.getElementsByTagName('area')[0].style.mixBlendMode='multiply';
passedurl=inurl;
}

setTimeout(function(){
askaway=true;
if (passedurl != '') { document.getElementsByTagName('area')[0].title=passedurl; passedurl=''; }
document.body.style.cursor='pointer';
document.getElementById('rhs').style.visibility='visible';
}, 8000);

if (inurl.trim() != '' && inurl != inurl.trim()) {
shareask(inurl.trim());
}

setTimeout(function(){
askaway=true;
}, 30000);
}


… of The Little QR Code That Could web application that we think is reasonably self evident in it’s use (but please don’t underestimate this woooorrrrlllldddd _{this golden orb}‘s crushed and forlorn and, now, not so forgotten QR Code) …

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