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herojoker:
Perhaps we could do a list of services that do well in the html view mode of FARR. Preferably services with no or almost no visible ads and a slick layout. No Google ads would be nice too because I don't want them to collect so much data about me...
Mostly PDA/Mobile Phone versions are fine.

Some categories are:
Weather/Date/Time
Translation/Definition/Thesaurus/Encyclopedia
News/Stocks/etc.
Search engines
Maps
Images/Videos
Games

I noticed that together with htmlviewurl the yubnub service is now quite interesting...

Of course embedded versions are always much better. If more powerful plugin developers were here, a group could be founded which port valuable web services to FARR.
E.g. response pages of translation services could be parsed such that only a nice table is shown (no input field, no ads etc.).

mouser:
perhaps what we need is a kind of greasemonkey-type scripting system plugin for rewriting pages to make the output very compact.

s.newave:
perhaps what we need is a kind of greasemonkey-type scripting system plugin for rewriting pages to make the output very compact.
-mouser (June 09, 2008, 08:09 PM)
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Great idea as mentioned in this previous thread https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13511.msg115016#msg115016 8)

... 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
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Nod5:
Good idea herojoker!  :Thmbsup: I was about to post a similar thread but now I'll stick to this.

Note that many webpages have special versions for mobile devices, made for a smaller screen and with less clutter. The ones I've tried work great in FARR.

To keep it functional, I'll stick to this four line format:

igo URL
(custom alias)
description of the page
(screencap)

...where line 2 and 4 is optional


igo http://exacttimenow.com/
1000>>>time>->time | htmlviewurl http://exacttimenow.com/ /ICON=icons\farr\core-internet_www.ico>+>^time$
large clock with exact time/date


igo m.rememberthemilk.com
online todo list, mobile version


igo http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://feeds.boingboing.net/boingboing/iBag
read any feed via google reader: http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/XXXXXXXX where XXXXXXXX is the feed URL.


update:
igo http://www.mailinator.com/widget/mailin8r.jsp?b=somerandomemail
1000>>>mailinator>->Internal Surf to Mailinator $$1 | htmlviewurl http://www.mailinator.com/widget/mailin8r.jsp?b=$$1>+>^(?:maili|mailin|mailina|mailinat|mailinato|mailinator) (.*)
check disposable email (note: to use mailinator with some privacy, pick a long, obscure adress and use its alternative inbox name when you sign up for forums etc)


igo http://embed.mibbit.com/?server=irc.umich.edu&channel=%23donationcoder
1000>>>irc>->Internal Surf to mibbit efnet #donationcoder | htmlviewurl http://embed.mibbit.com/?server=irc.umich.edu&channel=%23donationcoder>+>^irc$
use #donationcoder IRC channel at efnet via the mibbit.com widget

allen:
Neither plurk nor twitter's mobile versions will work as Internet explorer doesn't know how to use the mime type "application/xhtml xml " ?!?!. Ungh.

Anyway, Evernote is great, also using RTM (previously mentioned).
Evernote | htmlviewurl http://preview.evernote.com/m/


I've made the necessary alias setup for chacha.com but it's not working atm, chacha appears to be having a problem with its mobile bit.
ChaCha | htmlviewurl https://chacha.com/u/$$1

Mobile versions of plurk and twitter are below, in case anyone can figure out how to make IE not choke. I . . . don't know my way around IE very well.
Plurk | htmlviewurl http://plurk.com/m
Twitter | htmlviewurl http://m.twitter.com

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