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qr code is about easily passing data to your smart phone.

The most common application is give url to your phone. android 2.2 got a feature to push links from chrome to android phone.

with qrcode, you can do it from any browser to any smartphone.

One could write an plugin for that... one js including all what is needed. display a small icon on the page. when the user click on the icon, a large qrcode open, and the user can scan it and go on on its phone.

just suggesting

I use it for our web-based warehouse/inventory system.

Can you go into more details on this? I spec'ed out a WMS, and had a prototype, but I am very curious to see what you have come up with.

A perfect example: printed tickets (for movies, live music, airplanes, etc.) Instead of having to rely on a service to generate a barcode (pretty common) you could generate QR-codes right in the browser, which makes it that much easier to switch over to a QR based system.