Archive for the 'Web' Category
Friday, September 9th, 2005
Keeping with the Javascript theme of my last entry, I’d like to share one of the ways I’ve used Safari’s AppleScript accessible javascript model to improve the quality of my web browsing experience. It occurred to me one day while reading some long article on Salon.com that something had been bothering me for a long […]
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
URL Escaping is what causes those yucky percent-signs and numeric digits to show up sometimes in the middle of your otherwise perfectly legible URLs. These percent-escaped values are necessary because the list of allowed characters for a URL doesn’t cover many of the common punctuation marks we like to use, and also fails to cover […]
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
One of Safari’s really powerful tabbed-browsing features is the “Open in Tabs” option that appears at the bottom of any list (folder) of bookmarks you’ve placed in your Bookmarks Bar: But what happens when you’re already looking at a bunch of links in tabs, and you accidentally land on this feature? Your active Safari window’s […]
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