Archive for the tag "browsers"

  • In Firefox 3.0b5, if I drop a .webloc URL into a blank window it takes me to some random place in my recent history. WTH #
  • Wil & I saw “No Direction Home” over the past 2 nights. I’d seen it and it made me mad all over again at the press & vicious so-called fans. #
  • Getting an occasional white page in Gmail when chat is on. Is it b/c people are trying to IM me from the website badge? They never do, so… #

For testing, for fun

Question for Mac browser geeks

Rob?  I mean, whoever?  In OS X is it possible to create a bookmarklet (favelet) on one’s desktop?  They work fine for me inside my browser toolbar, but I can’t seem to drag those little things to my desktop.  Any bookmark with an ordinary http: URL works fine; I drag it to the desktop and a .webloc file is created.  But when I do the same thing with a bookmarklet, which begins with javascript: instead of http:, the resulting file is a clipping of the text of the bookmarklet, rather than a .webloc file.  Does OS X even have a built-in handler for a javascript uri?  I couldn’t find anything when I looked for it using RCDefaultApp.

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Not much to blog

Not much to blog about.  The Hasil Adkins show was great, I even got a few pictures which I’ll post in the gallery as soon as I get around to it.

At the moment I’m trying out the new Netscape 7 PR1.  It’s neato.  The grooviest feature is that you can browse multiple pages in the same tabbed window.  They should have come up with that a long time ago.