dynamic-HTML chart of named colours
Thursday, 28. August 2008, 04:29:05
Like the icon chart, both a useful thing and part of my exploration of what CSS can do.
link: colour chart.
link: colour chart.
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log: learnings & developments
Friday, 20. November 2009, 17:28:47
Latest (open post for more details & older items)(green links are button-installer tags)
2009
2009
- Nov 20: Link grabber: macros to capture links as links (in BBCode, HTML or text).
- Nov 16: style-marked button-installer tags implemented (discussion here).
- Nov 15: New-Window option added to Back/Forward buttons; button help demo
- Nov 14: Contacts panel is part of mail system (noob-unobvious critical fact).
- Nov 10: quirk: mail subfilters don't work unless senseless "mark as filtered" is checked.
- Nov 7: to have phrase/wordset address-field searches now, must set up second Google search.
- Nov 7: bad news for dialog.ini hackers: the file is not the whole story.
- Nov 7: a (reliable, non-GUI) way to launch specific sessions.
- Nov 7: quick-start utility for "resume from last time" users (rename&swap method).
- Nov 6: set WIN filetype to open with Opera. Then a link to autosave.win always resumes - even if startup setting is "open with home page."
- Oct 24: view mail files within the browser
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Links to hidden posts (& metascience blog)
Saturday, 24. October 2009, 17:44:51
One can't access Page 2 of this blog, or the archive - they come up blank. So the sidebar has been pressed into action as a directory, and here's the rest of the patch: links to all Page 2 posts, and all posts from pages 3 & 4 which are not on the sidebar.
(This strange state developed in August 2008. Some tinkering with my signature inadvertently caused a plague of blank pages in the Opera forums and also wiped out my blog; details here. The devs eventually removed the signature, which fixed most of the effects - but there is still one post on this blog that is somehow infected, and the result is these whiteouts. Just so you know what you're seeing, if you bump into it.)
(This strange state developed in August 2008. Some tinkering with my signature inadvertently caused a plague of blank pages in the Opera forums and also wiped out my blog; details here. The devs eventually removed the signature, which fixed most of the effects - but there is still one post on this blog that is somehow infected, and the result is these whiteouts. Just so you know what you're seeing, if you bump into it.)
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Buttons and bookmarklets: 12 favorites
Sunday, 3. August 2008, 17:22:38
(last updated 2009-11-15)(Green links are button-installer tags)
Five simple macros I've made, and seven javascript favorites from others.
latest (Nov 2009): "Back/Forward in New Window" added to Back/Forward dropdowns.
Five simple macros I've made, and seven javascript favorites from others.
latest (Nov 2009): "Back/Forward in New Window" added to Back/Forward dropdowns.
Link grabber
Friday, 20. November 2009, 21:40:38
Here - five years after this unanswered request - are macros that copy a link as a pastable link on the clipboard and in a note (and an explanation of the bug that made them problematic). Four of them, formatted as a Link Selection Popup Menu for pasting into a menu.ini) What each makes:
- BBCode link using only selected text as anchor
- BBCode link capturing the whole anchor
- HTML link using only selected text
- plain text: URL, _||_ as separator, selected text (for pasting into dialogs - excess deleted in each field)
The mystery button: a dynamic HTML demo
Sunday, 17. August 2008, 18:04:28
Most links point to pages, but some are portals into an unreal world: like the Mystery Button
Note: doesn't work in Internet Explorer - it's a data URL, which Explorer doesn't support.
Note: doesn't work in Internet Explorer - it's a data URL, which Explorer doesn't support.
Help popup menus: KB+codes
Sunday, 10. August 2008, 22:20:26
Here's a menu you can add to your menu bar with keyboard information, and charts of escape codes, Opera variables and HTML entities.
Putting this in the menu tree gives you very quick, non-disruptive access to information panels.
Putting this in the menu tree gives you very quick, non-disruptive access to information panels.
sometimes-unrealized pertinent facts for Opera users
Friday, 8. August 2008, 20:10:09
topics:
This is an attempt to state everything worth knowing, that a person may not know, on various Opera-relevant topics. (Related to FAQ, but includes facts you didn't know you were lacking.) Goal is to get topics laid out, cold. (I'm often surprised to become aware late in the day of something others thought was obvious.)
- controlling sort order in Notes and Bookmarks
- bookmark file location surprise
- blog organization dodges
- taking & posting screenshots
This is an attempt to state everything worth knowing, that a person may not know, on various Opera-relevant topics. (Related to FAQ, but includes facts you didn't know you were lacking.) Goal is to get topics laid out, cold. (I'm often surprised to become aware late in the day of something others thought was obvious.)
the restless quest: imperfections noted.
Wednesday, 6. August 2008, 04:09:41
(last edited 2009-11-21)
As a sometime designer, I sympathize with the devs, to whom user suggestion and critique no doubt becomes wearisome. They must feel like saying, "off you go and develop your own browser then." But pondering what could be better is part of the process of perfection; one only develops sensitivities by noticing flaws. Here are a few I've noticed.
2009-11-21: unlisted unremovable key binding: e.g., Ctrl+p in edit field = context menu.
2009-11-20: Notes input-registration bug: input via "insert" often vanishes.
2009-11-16: button installer tags not marked.(here, button-installer tags are green.)
2008: tiny windows
2008: blog UI: Advanced Options
2008: icon address convention
As a sometime designer, I sympathize with the devs, to whom user suggestion and critique no doubt becomes wearisome. They must feel like saying, "off you go and develop your own browser then." But pondering what could be better is part of the process of perfection; one only develops sensitivities by noticing flaws. Here are a few I've noticed.
2009-11-21: unlisted unremovable key binding: e.g., Ctrl+p in edit field = context menu.
2009-11-20: Notes input-registration bug: input via "insert" often vanishes.
2009-11-16: button installer tags not marked.(here, button-installer tags are green.)
2008: tiny windows
2008: blog UI: Advanced Options
2008: icon address convention
Data-loss defect in the Notes system, and a quick backup to keep your notes safe
Friday, 1. August 2008, 22:34:58
(last edited 2009-11-7) (green links are button-installer tags)
Yesterday my Notes.adr file suddenly shrank from 260 KB to 13 KB. It's a jolt: most of your folders just gone. There are at least two big flaws in the note system that can wipe out data - irretrievably, if you don't have backups. One fixed, Oct. 2008 Luckily I had lots of backups, stacked and ready to reinstall - because I have a Baknotes item on my File menu, and enough bad experiences to make me click it after putting anything important into Notes.
Here are pointers to threads about the flaws, and Baknotes: a DOS utility Windows users can copy off the screen, and run from a menu or a button to take most of the sting out of what can indeed happen.
Yesterday my Notes.adr file suddenly shrank from 260 KB to 13 KB. It's a jolt: most of your folders just gone. There are at least two big flaws in the note system that can wipe out data - irretrievably, if you don't have backups. One fixed, Oct. 2008 Luckily I had lots of backups, stacked and ready to reinstall - because I have a Baknotes item on my File menu, and enough bad experiences to make me click it after putting anything important into Notes.
Here are pointers to threads about the flaws, and Baknotes: a DOS utility Windows users can copy off the screen, and run from a menu or a button to take most of the sting out of what can indeed happen.
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(Archive blanked, sidebar steps in) charts
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dynamic icon chart
see all the icons of your skin at once
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dynamic colour chart
all 140 named colours on one screen
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panel-ready keyboard chart
add your own info
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all the icons on a menu
another way to have them easily viewable
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keystrokes & codes help menu
demo of menus as help screens
functions
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tab aliaser 2 (Nov 2009)
rename pages temporarily or permanently; set up name trimmers
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Link grabber
grabs link as BBCode/HTML (note & clipboard)
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Showcode: see inside menus & toolbars
neat hack: search command that searches for itself. Drop button on toolbar; click to see toolbar code.
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Annotated webnotes
add remarks (& route to fixed folders)
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simple DOS backup
a 1 kB utility that runs in seconds
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better sessions functions you've never seen
also: post-crash session recovery, and other sessions lore
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Augmented bookmark functions
created with one gesture; save address of page as well as link; use selected text as name
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perfected search functions
selected-text searches that: work on editable text, don't erase clipboard, & are setting-independent. Phrase/wordset; one-hand gestures. Plus search lore
miscellaneous
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note-friendly stretchable bookmarks
custom dialog.ini lets you improve dialogs; this one optimizes bookmarks as notepads
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The Mystery Button
dynamic-HTML demo
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Page-groups now!
pagegroup system using current resources
info
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log: learnings & developments
new to me, anyhow
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sometimes-unrealized pertinent facts
fragments of an Opera encyclopedia
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how to save your notes, and why you should
bugs can cause loss of notes. Here's a backup utility.
- 15 things I didn't know
critique
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the address-field-dropdown control we don't have
analysis of incoherence, and a precise image of the coherent form
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