!Shake (Warning: lame)

Okay, here's another quick one: !elInfo - lets you hover over elements to see their html code in the statusbar. Handy if you forgot the class or id of certain elements. Note: it shows IE's rendition of the html tag, not the actual tag as typed. Source:

javascript:void(document.onmousemove=new Function('window.status=event.srcElement.outerHTML'))

Incremental zoom bookmarklets: !ZoomInIn and !ZoomOutOut (drag to Links-bar). Works best in IE5 (IE6 won't resize positioned elements). Source:

javascript:if(!document.z){void(document.z=1);}void(document.z*=2);void(document.body.style.zoom=document.z);void(document.body.parentNode.style.zoom=document.z);

javascript:if(!document.z){void(document.z=1);}void(document.z*=0.5);void(document.body.style.zoom=document.z);void(document.body.parentNode.style.zoom=document.z);

Update: I forgot, pup already made these.

!ZoomOut

!Invert

Here's a double-set of experimental bookmarklets I made the other day after getting rather envious of IE5Mac's autofill-form ability. To use, drag the links to your Links-bar:

!GET - loops thru all form fields on a page and stores values in a cookie named 'formfields'.

!PUT - fills all form fields in current page based on value of cookie 'formfields'.

(Note: use at own risk.)

Update 020115: One problem with these is that they also get and set hidden input values - messing up some web-apps... So be careful, please ;)

A bookmarklet-based fix for those suffering from IE6's tendendy to center texts which need not be centered:
left-align text (drag to linksbar).

Miracles of the next 50 years (written in 1950). [via slashdot.org]


Annoyed by those big ads in CNET articles like this one? Try this bookmarklet: Hide ads (drag to Links-bar). It'll hide any IFRAMEs and any standard 468x60 banner IMGs on the current page.

Researching a school-presentation on Application Servers, I came across this site: Web Tools Review, a nice collection of reviews and commentaries with a very personal style.

(This #999999 background modifying bookmarklet should make the lengthy white pages somewhat more readable.)



riothero.com has an important message.

Some sites can make you waste a lot of time hovering over links, trying to read all the possibly interesting title-tooltips. But now there's a solution in the form of a new bookmarklet: Titles (drag to your links bar).

Try clicking it when reading title-abusing sites such as Zeldman and Interconnected, and the titles for each link will magically appear inline in parentheses.

Update 1: if you try it on this page, you'll see quite a mess because each of my referrer-links also has a title... Oh well, at least it works... [reported by Mihir]

Update 2: I fixed the problem by removing the titles from the referrer-links. Wasn't really a need for them anyway.




Lots of funny and weird Onion-esque articles at squelched.com, including a list of the Top Ten Arm Wrestling Movies. [via my erroneous referrer list]


Something new at i.am/bald. IE5.5 recommended.


'I have nothing to tell or sell you for the moment'


Updated the Design-page, now with thumbnails!


Invasion of the Web Snatcher [via CiPHER]


THREE.OH - The fast-loading K10K.

My brother has a new homepage. Don't be fooled by the appearance, the totally retro '96 homepage look is by design.



Random linkage (click, explore, enjoy):
- BlogStart random blog
- Webloggers Webring random blog
- IMDB random movie

Using a MS tutorial on browser extensions, a copy of MicroAngelo 98 and the Up-bookmarklet I found at Anil Dash, I managed to add my own working 'Up Button' to the IE5 toolbar, using the same icon as the up button in regular Explorer. Very handy for traversing webserver directories.

For an instant Up Button, drag this link to your linksbar: Up


I'm still amazed at the potential speed of Java applets, after years of programming mostly in Javascript/DHTML. Here's i.am/bald #81.

Eep! What happened to AltaVista? Actually, it doesn't look all that bad... The dark header is a bit distracting though.


New at i.am/bald: 79 - I started experimenting with Java-applets recently hoping to one day be able to create one of those cool "plasma" effects, when in fact I managed to create one today using plain ol' Javascript. Go figure...



Here's another fun javascript bookmarklet for IE-users: stretch imgs - drag the link to your linksbar, then click it when visiting a site with plenty of images.

Or try this slightly modified version: switch imgs - instead of stretching out images, this randomly swaps the source of an image with that of another one.



Non-trailer excerpts from the X-Men movie. [via memepool]


Must-download: Kevin Spacey's SNL appearance in 1.2MB RealVideo (lower-left thumbnail). [via Kempa.com]

Note-to-self: Low sez to check these Flash-sites when I get home:
- Lunarmedia lunarbook
- Flashwave.net sunflowers
- ...


New bookmarklet: random link - opens a random link chosen from all the links on a page. Something to try on mega link page Factory512 for example.

I can stop wondering what the author of 404 meant with 'fajne i.am/bald' - I just received an email from one Piotr explaining that 'fajne' means 'impressive'. Thanks!


Very cutesy and informative comparison between the benefits of both Flash and animated GIFs. Wacht Flash and GIF walk hand-in-hand into the sunset at the end! [via retecool]


Kijk eens aan, Smoel heeft het bannertje opgemerkt dat ik vanmiddag op jandevries had geplaatst - het verdwijnt echter telkens weer snel. Da's het gevaar van een open bron webportaal, je bent er nooit zeker van dat jouw links blijven staan... Maar om daar nou een heuse oorblog om te voeren...


New bookmarklet: random imdb movie

Internet Explorer 5 users: you know that built-in IE search-pane you almost never use? Well, you can now view a trimmed-down version of this page in your search-pane. Clicking on links will simply open them in the main window, while my page remains visible until the search-pane is closed again.

A well-constructed frameset could provide the same functionality, but that would hide the address and title of clicked links.


The trick to opening a URL of your choice in the search-pane is the following Javascript-command:

_search=open('your_url_here', '_search')

You would probably want to call this command via a hyperlink, like so:

<A HREF="javascript:void(_search=open('your_url_here', '_search'))">click me</A>

I expanded the IE-only pageGray-bookmarklet (see 00/03/12) so that it desaturates not just single pages, but entire framesets as well:
- pageGray (drag to Links-bar)

Radiohead are maintaining an online journal detailing the process of making their new album. It's a 50k page, going all the way back to July 1999.

The official Matrix website contains an amazing collection of Matrix-based comics and stories. The artists' names in the left-frame each open a different comic.

Yow!

New SHIFT online. Nice cover design.

I just came up with some neat one-click javascript-tricks for use in IE5. Drag-n-drop these links to your Links-toolbar, then click them whenever you want to transform the page you are viewing:
- flipH: flip page horizontally
- flipV: flip page vertically
- flipHV: rotate page 180 degrees
- unflip: return page to normal

This is fun! Here's another one:
- pageGray: remove all color from page

Apparently, students at some Australian university have to make a weblog as a school-assignment. Why don't we ever get to do cool assignments like that?