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Sunday, August 3, 2008 5:22:38 PM
buttons
(last updated 2010-3-16)
(green links are button-installer tags)Some button lore and links, and about 20 buttons: mostly from me with a few favorites from others; mostly useful, with a few whose value is chiefly as demos or explorations.
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Saturday, January 30, 2010 6:22:53 PM
buttons, macros, icons, dynamic HTML
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textarea version added 2010-2-13
Opera 10.5-compatible update 2010-2-21
You can think of this as the My Buttons customization page on steroids, or a buttonmaker-with-icon-chart which takes the next step by adding storage - it's both. Unlike the My Buttons page, it lets you view and edit button actions, add comments, organize buttons into groups with headings, and include macros which are not buttons. It also generates (in addition to button-installer tags) installer tag code (BBCode & HTML formats) you can paste into forum posts or web pages, and toggles between compact and expanded views by item or globally.
Two versions:
full view version (now 10.5-compatible) (which I prefer) uses fit-to-content editable areas (via the contentEditable attribute) to allow actions and remarks to be seen in their entirety even if long (but is a little flaky for editing);
textarea version uses more familiar fixed-length textareas to present the editable elements - less quirky, but hides the ends of long items.
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Sunday, January 17, 2010 9:58:28 AM
buttons, javascript
For when you find a button that's almost what you want.
Rightclick the button-installer tag, and select the editor from your popup menu; a dialog is generated, with the original tag, plus its code both onscreen and in a text box to modify. There's a button to click to generate installer tags for your amended versions - as many as you like.
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Sunday, July 13, 2008 8:16:25 AM
buttons, macros, customization, notes
(last edited 2009-11-20)
(green links are button-installer tags)Here are two macros which permit addition of remarks to webnotes as they are made, and also take the mystery out of where they will end up - routing them to selected destinations in the note system.
Out of the box, Notes can be created in two different ways: webnotes, which are generated from the browser window, include an excerpt from a page, and work as a link to it - but which you don't see and can't write on as they're created; and notes you write yourself, in the panel - which aren't linked to anything. This function fuses the two forms, permitting you to add remarks to a webnote as it's made. A floating pane (which is actually the undocked panel) pops up in front of the webpage, and is dismissed when you're done. The idea is to permit the recording of remarks in context, as effortlessly and unobtrusively as possible. One version routes notes to a selected folder, the other to the root folder.
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Friday, January 4, 2008 10:54:45 PM
buttons, javascript
(last revised 2010-1-3)
(green links are button-installer tags)Tabs are narrow, and titles often are long - so you can end up looking at the beginning of a name and wondering what the page is. Here are two solutions: an alias dictionary to permanently give webpages short, clear names or trim off clutter, and a temporary aliaser (from AyushJ) that lets you rename, label or annotate tabs on the fly.
One use is to reduce some tabs to just a favicon, like Firefox's Faviconize and Chrome's Pin Tab (a button for that:
Nameless; reload page to restore name), making things very compact, if you edit your skin file to reduce minimum tab width:
(Tab Aliaser 1 - a clunky method which originally motivated this post, and does have a certain warped charm - is included as a historical artifact.)
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