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kartal:
I think one other thing that could be useful for viewing web pages is ability to define size of the Farr window when a web page is called via alias or similar predefined patter. So that one can define 800*600,1024*768, 400*200 etc. I personally hate autosizing :)

mouser:
very cool stuff!!!
nod5 that time one is a great one for demoing the new feature, very cool.

we need to make an alias pack, complete with icons, for all of these htmlview things.

by the way using the showhtml command it should be possible to create aliases that use their own self-containted html and javascript to do some of this stuff and not even need a connection to the web.

nitrix-ud:
very cool stuff!!!
nod5 that time one is a great one for demoing the new feature, very cool.
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@Nod5, great stuff  :Thmbsup:

@mouser, i told you that many many uses would come from aliases (as opposed to plugins)  :P
hence, the need to polish the core functions

kartal:
probably this one would be useful too,

http://whatismyip.com/

Nod5:
we need to make an alias pack, complete with icons, for all of these htmlview things.
-mouser (June 10, 2008, 10:39 AM)
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I'll try to make some when I have more time. What is the latest guideline for the format? (I think I've asked that before but I didn't find that thread now. It would be good if that was made a sticky in the FARR forum part)

When an alias uses htmlview to display non-local pages then an option to use the related website's favicon would make sense (maybe FARR could download a copy of the favicon the very first time the alias runs?)

re: greasemonkey-ish functionality: maybe in the form of a regexp field in the alias setup window where we can specify what in the html to filter out (or alternatively "filter in") before it is displayed?

kartal: I can see the point of custom FARR window resizing and I bet mouser will implement some support for that. But I'm also unsure how useful the very large sizes would be. For large size pages a regular browser is better. FARR can really excel as a browser complement for small pages that load fast, have a specific focus and are used briefly but repeatedly. Like checking the time, the tv schedule, some RSS feed, a weather report, a todo list and so on. Its the same niche that I think projects like Prism have tried to fill.

Also, good idea with ip checking! Here is an even simpler page:

igo http://checkip.dyndns.org/
1000>>>ip>->Internal Surf to display WAN ip | htmlviewurl http://checkip.dyndns.org/>+>^ip$
display your WAN ip

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