{"id":67,"date":"2010-11-23T11:19:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T16:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/?p=67"},"modified":"2010-11-23T11:19:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T16:19:50","slug":"quick-qr-codes-for-urls-from-your-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/2010\/11\/23\/quick-qr-codes-for-urls-from-your-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick QR codes for URLs from your browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing some work on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/mobile\/\">Firefox Mobile<\/a> lately, and I keep winding up in situations where I have a URL that I want to load on my mobile device. It&#8217;s a pain to type URLs in with a virtual keyboard (or a tiny keyboard), so people have taken to using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/QR_Code\">QR codes<\/a> to encode them, and there are lots of mobile apps that can read the codes and load the URL contained within. Conveniently, the<a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/chart\/\"> Google Charts API<\/a> supports generating QR codes, so I threw together a <a href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~tmielczarek\/qr-bookmarklet.html\">tiny bookmarklet<\/a> that generates a QR code of the page you&#8217;re currently viewing. <a href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~tmielczarek\/qr-bookmarklet.html\">Go to this page<\/a> and drag it to your bookmarks toolbar to use it, then just click it whenever you&#8217;re viewing a URL that you need to view on your device. I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androlib.com\/android.application.com-google-zxing-client-android-xzA.aspx\">Barcode Scanner<\/a> on Android to read them, and it works pretty well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing some work on Firefox Mobile lately, and I keep winding up in situations where I have a URL that I want to load on my mobile device. It&#8217;s a pain to type URLs in with a virtual keyboard (or a tiny keyboard), so people have taken to using QR codes to encode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}