Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
by eli on Saturday February 24, 2007 @02:16PM
(#904)
Which brings up another feature request: tweak the CSS so that really long text in a comment (without any spaces) doesn't cause the whole page to expand beyond 1024 pixels.
Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
by bluemoo on Sunday February 25, 2007 @04:27PM
(#1073)
This problem is firefox specific. For whatever reason, IE does The Right Thing. Actually, the whole site just looks better in IE, so maybe this should be a request for better Firefox support :)
Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
by brett on Friday February 23, 2007 @07:36PM
(#795)
The main functionality I would want out of a submit bookmarklet is prepopulating the url field so I don't have to copy and paste it. Showing the submit page in context of the page I am on does not help as much.
Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
by eli on Saturday February 24, 2007 @02:14PM
(#903)
Then I would suggest that a new feature be the ability to pass url parameters to the submit form that prepopulate the url and/or title fields.
As it stands, there's no real way to do it in a bookmarklet. Firefox's XSS security policies won't allow it.
Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
by danw on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @07:21AM
(#1504)
Prepopulation is what I wanted too. If someone could update the submit page so that it accepts something like ?url=site.com&title=foobar in the url it would be great.
At least now its easy to drag and drop from the page the url and title. Any one know a way to get prepopulation to work?
Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
by eli on Thursday March 01, 2007 @08:23AM
(#1693)
As I said before, I don't think it can work (in Firefox) without a change in the code. Firefox's default security settings won't let you modify the content of html from another domain (I don't think...)
I've just made a realy quick and dirty bookmarklet. It's only tested in firefox 2 and it's not quite how I would like it to work but it's a start. I'll hopefully update it later to work better.
Just add the following URL as a bookmark:
javascript:(function(){var d=document;var b=d.body;var c=b.insertBefore(d.createElement('center'),b.firstChild); var dv=c.appendChild(d.createElement('iframe'));dv.id='ifrm'; dv.height='30%';dv.width='100%';dv.src='http://news.ycombinator.com/submit'; d.getElementById('ifrm').scrollIntoView(); })();
Let me know if it works.