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nitrix-ud:
i may have to make a little mini toolbar for the htmlview mode with options like "open in browser", refresh, etc.  and i guess an address bar too
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that would be great, i also suggest a button to copy the url to the search box... so that you can trigger a url regex...

one thing i was thinking might be needed is an options page in FARR dedicated to the html view mode,
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good idea, i think options on how to handle popups and new windows are a must

one thing it might include is a list of websites url regex patterns that FARR should open in it's internal window, vs. those it should open externally.  just an idea.
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it would be easier using aliases no ?

let's say you have the infamous url alias :
^(https?://)?(([0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+: )?[0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+@)?(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}|localhost|alextd|mickytd|([0-9a-z_!~*'()-]+\.)*([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]{0,61})?[0-9a-z]\.[a-z]{2,6})(:[0-9]{1,4})?((/?)|(/[0-9a-z_!~*'().;?:@&=+$,%#-]+)+/?)$

just add the two results :

$$4$$8$$9 | http://$$4$$8$$9
$$4$$8$$9 | showhtml http://$$4$$8$$9

and we are done !

my only fear is that we do not want to overcomplicate this -- it's not meant to be a replacement browser.
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i think you are right, i see it as a starting point before using a full blown browser...

BUT in the other hand, i have quite a lot of web tools that i run locally that will be used right within FARR, and that is pretty amazing !

keep up the good work

s.newave:
my ie7 does not have this, is that normal ??
-nitrix-ud (June 01, 2008, 02:16 PM)
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interesting. Just checked and even though i never use ie if i right click on a link it has a "Open in new window" option. Might be part of some toolbar addon i added.

one thing i was thinking might be needed is an options page in FARR dedicated to the html view mode, and one thing it might include is a list of websites url regex patterns that FARR should open in it's internal window, vs. those it should open externally.
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sound goods. i would only add that the default behavior should be to open in the internal browser. like nitrix-ud i plan to use this for a lot of quick searches and info gathering from within farr.

I know you dont want to over complicate this feature however it would be great if while you are maintaining a list of websites url regex patterns you could also specify an action/file/script to be launched to process the page before displaying it. This way you could strip out only the html you were interested in or add/change/format pages, greasemonkey style :Thmbsup:

herojoker:
My IE7 (7.0.5730.11) has "In neuer Registerkarte öffnen" and "In neuem Fenster öffnen" which means "Open in new Tab" and "Open in new Window".

@all plugin writers: Be careful not to overuse the html view! I fear that instead of the normal result list artificial html result lists will be created just to make it look better...

nitrix-ud:
@all plugin writers: Be careful not to overuse the html view! I fear that instead of the normal result list artificial html result lists will be created just to make it look better...
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very good point

macs:
i may have to make a little mini toolbar for the htmlview mode with options like "open in browser", refresh, etc.  and i guess an address bar too.
-mouser (June 01, 2008, 02:19 PM)
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I'm not sure abot a mini-toolbar and address bar.

The sort of things I'd expect the viewer to be used for are:

* Formatting of results (I'm thinking here more of the current memo/notes view rather than the current list)
* Stripped down content scraped from a page on the web
* Specialist links to things such as a file on the local file system or another page (which would be generated by the plugin)
The thing is some of these things wouldn't work if the page was passed to a normal browser, so I don't immediately see why the mini HTML viewer needs to have the functions of a normal web browser. Such things would seem to fill up space without adding much.

Maybe we need to consider in a bit more detail what plugins would use the viewer and whether they should use the viewer or just the current system. Then the viewer can contain the required functionality without becoming too complicated.

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