Re: first time galeon user
Peter Jay Salzman <[email protected]>
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i don't remember seeing this kind of functionality before -- this is the best thing to happen to browsing since tabbed browsing or window recovery upon crashing. whoever thought this functionality up is a genius. thank you! :-) pete begin Topher <[email protected]> > > 2. one nice feature of opera is that you can highlight text (a word, a > > paragraph) and send it to a dictionary, thesaurus, translate between any > > number of languages and do a websearch with the search engine of your > > choice. > > You can fake this in Galeon. If you make a bookmark, and set this as the > URL: > javascript:if(frames.length>0){F=' (Open frame in new window first.)'}else{F=''}Q=document.getSelection();if(!Q){void(Q=prompt('No text selected on page.'+F+'\n\nKeywords...?',''))};if(Q)location.href='http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va='+escape(Q) > > Then you can highlight a word, choose that bookmark, and it'll look it up > on m-w for you. If you want that bookmark really handy, you can either > make it part of a button bar, or put it in your right click context menu. > > Here's another example that will let you select a Bible verse and it'll > look it up: > > javascript:if(frames.length>0){F=' (Open frame in new window first.)'}else{F=''}Q=document.getSelection();if(!Q){void(Q=prompt('No text selected on page.'+F+'\n\nKeywords...?',''))};if(Q)location.href='http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible?version=NIV&SearchType=AND&passage='+escape(Q) > > You can see that the only difference is the URL at the end of the script. > Change that, and you can make your own bookmarks to send your highlighted > text anywhere you want. > > Topher > Manager of Internet Services > Cornerstone Broadcasting > Cornerstone University > > ------ > You know, Hobbes, some days even my rocketship underpants don't help. > -Calvin > -- Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf