Ask HN: Why are QR codes not clickable links on browsers?

They would require some kind of built-in OCR. And I can easily see this having a strong potential for security bugs. On the other hand, I'd like to have such support, especially on mobile phone in order to bypass the need to use the phone's camera for that OCR step.

I'm guessing you could use something like this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BarcodeDete...

But the compatibility chart is colorful.

Looks good! I hope FF and Safari will catch up soon.