Snip!t

[[ really just a holding page for now ]]

Doing a snip is like a sort of web scrapbook, with links and scraps of pages that have caught your eye.

Do you want to have Snip!t always available?

Depending on you browser either drag the appropriate link to your Browser toolbar (Safari) or do right click (Windows) or control-click (Mac) over the link and then add to favourites. Because these links include JavaScript your browser may pop up a warning box.

Version 1: Snip!t For NS4 & 5 Windows and IE on Macs - supports frames

Version 2: Snip!t For NS6 and Mozilla - supports HTML snips and frames :-)

Version 3: Snip!t For IE on Windows - recent IE updates have broken bookmarklets even more - so sorry no HTML snips, and no frame support, max snip length a few hundred words

Version 4: Snip!t For Safari 1.2 and before - supports frames

Version 5: Snip!t For Safari 1.3 onwards - supports frames

Notes on the above:

supports HTML

this means that the formatting of your snip including images and links is preserved
alternative is just plain text is snipped

supports frames

this means that selections can be in framed sites
otherwise the URL is snipped but not the text

IE windows size restriction

for some reason IE in windows chops the URL down to around 2K bytes when launching a new window
this means that long snips cannot be communicated back to the snip server
long snips may therefore be truncated. The HTML also takes a lot of space so may not be passed over for longer snips.

no support for NS 4 on Mac Os9

this version didn't support javascript in bookmarks :-(

Safari (Mac)

this broke for a while, like most bookmarklets, when Safari 1.3 changed the way it handled selections, but working again now
when apple get their act together and support selections like Mozilla and IE will be able to do HTML snips for that too

Firefox/Mozilla

after doing a snip there appears to be a bug that leaves large chunks of the screen highlighted. This is just a display bug in Mozilla but looks unsightly. Refreshing the page or doing back then forward clears it.