I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences
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the bottom one is not a qr code. The padding is part of it.
padding
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Everyone must submit to the CSS box model!
i hate coding for browsers. To that end, I do not actually know css. I just called it padding when I wrote my own qr code library, because it was easier to say than "quiet zone".
Just like "dots" or "pixels" are easier to say than "modules"
Yeah... I'm pretty sure the white space is part of the spec for a QR code.