Re:The Printliminator
by scottjackson on Thursday October 08, 2009 @03:42AM
(#868561)
Very cool.
Though the one thing I kinda wish it had is an undo button -- if I accidentally remove something when I don't really want to, I'd like to not have to reload the page and click in all of the areas again (except the last one, of course).
I guess that would mean keeping track of what the last div/span/whatever you removed was, which I guess might be a little too involved for a bookmarklet. I wouldn't know -- I'm no JavaScript wizard.
Re:The Printliminator
by buro9 on Thursday October 08, 2009 @03:49AM
(#868569)
I haven't looked at the code, but I suspect they're just using display:none to hide elements. There's no reason you couldn't use an array as a stack so that you could keep track of the identifiers for the elements that have been hidden and then allow an undo mechanism. For elements without an id you'd add something of your own, probably a cssclass. An undo system is not too difficult to implement.
Re:The Printliminator
by blasdel on Thursday October 08, 2009 @03:50AM
(#868570)
Congratulations, I'm not sure how he managed to make a Mac-specific bookmarklet, but he did!
I was willing to overlook it if he was just foppishly referring to option-click under the assumption that his ideal user would be using a Mac too, but no -- the functionality doesn't work with any of the modifier keys in any Gecko or Webkit browser on Linux.
Re:The Printliminator
by tjweir on Thursday October 08, 2009 @10:48AM
(#869078)
Using this and Readability yield great results.
I find that Readability decides on the wrong bit of content sometimes. So use Printliminator's Option-Click to select what you want to keep and then run Readability to format it nicely.
Though the one thing I kinda wish it had is an undo button -- if I accidentally remove something when I don't really want to, I'd like to not have to reload the page and click in all of the areas again (except the last one, of course).
I guess that would mean keeping track of what the last div/span/whatever you removed was, which I guess might be a little too involved for a bookmarklet. I wouldn't know -- I'm no JavaScript wizard.
I was willing to overlook it if he was just foppishly referring to option-click under the assumption that his ideal user would be using a Mac too, but no -- the functionality doesn't work with any of the modifier keys in any Gecko or Webkit browser on Linux.
Another useful bookmarklet is readability: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
I find that Readability decides on the wrong bit of content sometimes. So use Printliminator's Option-Click to select what you want to keep and then run Readability to format it nicely.
I wish they was an undo function though.