edvakf

Improved Hit-a-Hint Bookmarklet With Your Keybind

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:12:03 AM

I wrote a post (link below) about 3 month ago about a Hit-a-Hint bookmarklet.

Improvement to Hit-a-Hint bookmarklet for Opera

Today I made it even nicer with integrated ability to focus on text areas, select buttons, click javascript-executing links.

I also made a page where you can customize your own keybind.

Here it is Hit-a-Hint Generator for Opera

Feel free to tell me if you found a bug. Most of the time when hints are not drawn, it comes from Opera's bug with getClientRects...

Opera 9.60's bug on getBoundingClientRect and getClientRectsFlashblock and iframe-block for Opera by CSS

Comments

David Håsätherhzr # Tuesday, November 4, 2008 8:07:37 PM

Really really nice work. Konqueror has had a similar feature, and I've been wanting this in Opera.

Thanks!

edvakf # Thursday, November 6, 2008 7:57:45 PM

@hzr
Thank you for the comment. Good to here someone is actually using it.

jabu2oz # Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:13:53 AM

Thanks, allows for some easy customisation of Blazeix's script.

Is it possible to have tabs open in the background? and perhaps an option to move the hints to the right of the link?

edvakf # Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12:40:43 PM

When you press enter, press ctrl+shift together.

jabu2oz # Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:09:10 AM

Thanks. Would it also be possible to incorporate "basic hints" mode? i.e. "If the number you type has only one possible hint, that hint will be automatically chosen for you."

edvakf # Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:27:17 PM

Unfortunately I can't do it. I had that feature at first, but I didn't like it so it was removed.
It's not hard to implement, but you will lose some nice things like multiple selection and opening in background.
If you like to fork the source, feel free to do so.
http://gist.github.com/36875

Sam Oibermansamoiberman # Friday, July 3, 2009 10:20:43 AM

Hey,
This is excellent, love not having to use the mouse, especially on my laptop. One thing I have found is that it isn't working in gmail. I'm not sure if that's designed so that it doesn't mess with the gmail keyboard shortcuts or not.

I was hoping to be able to use the gmail keyboard shortcuts until I type the hit-a-hint key (";" is what I have bound it to), then be able to open links using the hints. Not sure if I would need to use the 'Kill page keyboard shortcuts' script from the page with the hit-a-hint bookmarklet or not.

Thanks for your help,
Sam

Blazeix # Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:45:27 PM

This is really nice, thanks for releasing it. I really like the use of xpath to select elements, rather than my way. I'm planning on releasing another version of my vimperator keybindings for opera; would you mind if I included your hit-a-hint script (crediting you, of course)? I'd probably include it as is, as well as a modified version to support 'basic hints' mode.

edvakf # Sunday, August 16, 2009 11:30:00 PM

All of my work published here is under public domain.
Please feel free to do do anything with it.