Last night I started out to do some work on Quip (see below), but got
sidetracked by AHOY... (01)
Brian Donovan's AHOY <http://dev.lophty.com/ahoy/index.htm> allows a
user of Mozilla or a Mozilla-based browser to create an anchor to a span
of text by Alt+clicking and dragging across the desired text fragment
thereby triggering Ahoy to furnish you with a link to your selection. (02)
The caveat is that the author of the page must include some javascript
in his page to call ahoy.js. (03)
I've taken AHOY and added a little PurpleSlurple magic, transcoding the
requisite bit of code, <script type='text/javascript'
src='ahoy.js'></script>, into the Web page on the fly. (04)
So psAHOY
<http://goto.mybarricade.com/sasites/suse/apache/files/psAhoy.php> then
is a two step process: (05)
1. Transcode the Web page via the psAHOY bookmarklet
2. Alt+click and drag across the desired text, releasing the mouse
botton to generate the link (06)
Here's a sample: PurpleSlurple is a transcoding service that reformats
Web pages on-the-fly
<http://goto.mybarricade.com/sasites/suse/apache/files/psAhoy.php?collapse=yes&theurl=http://www.purpleslurple.net/&ahyAnchor=1.1&ahyParentNodeTagName=P&ahyParentNodeIndex=2&ahyChildIndex=1&ahySelectionStart=1&ahySelectionLength=74#ahoyanchor> (07)
Quip <http://www.sasites.com/suse/apache/files/quip.html> will work
across all browsers and be one step. It might utilize some Web archive
and create, if not immutable, fairly robust links. I set out last night
to work on Quip, but psAHOY looked too easy. I'm glad I digressed. (08)
Here's a few notes from last night:
http://goto.mybarricade.com/purpleslurple/#log (09)
Matt (010)
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