[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #882: Tahoe URIs and gateway URLs are too long and ugly

[Jody Harris]

You could run the qrcode through one of the tinyurl.com-type sites and
get something like this:
http://tinyurl.com/y8oscso
<img src="http://tinyurl.com/y8oscso">

Maybe.

j
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:37 PM, tahoe-lafs <trac at allmydata.org> wrote:
>
> #882: Tahoe URIs and gateway URLs are too long and ugly
> -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------
>  Reporter:  davidsarah         |           Owner:  nobody
>     Type:  defect             |          Status:  new
>  Priority:  critical           |       Milestone:  2.0.0
> Component:  unknown            |         Version:  1.5.0
>  Keywords:  usability newurls  |   Launchpad_bug:
> -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------
>
> Comment(by jsgf):
>
>  I've been looking at encoding caps in QR codes as a way to publish them,
>  get them into phones and other devices, etc.  You can see from the
>  attached images the codes are large.  They could probably be further
>  reduced, but these were generated with "small" size at
>  http://qrcode.kaywa.com/.  I don't know how well they'd reproduce if
>  printed.
>
>  The URL is also too large to fit into a single SMS (at 141 characters).
>
> --
> Ticket URL: <http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/882#comment:15>
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