[11651] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Jumbotext - A New Feature to WWW
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James P. Salsman)
Fri Jun 30 18:29:27 2000
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:19:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: "James P. Salsman" <bovik@best.com>
Message-Id: <200006302219.PAA10903@shell9.ba.best.com>
To: burchard@pobox.com
Cc: walkman44@excite.com, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <042c23452191e60OMMD-DMZ-DNS1@ommd-dmz-dns1.aethersystems.com>
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Paul,
Thanks for your message:
>... Actually, this idea was implemented the right way over 10 years
> ago in the (pre-web) NeXTSTEP "Services" architecture. Basically, the user
> could make any (multimedia) selection in any application, go to a standard
> system-supplied menu, and have other apps perform their registered
> services on that data (in-place if appropriate)....
Yes; I agree with the comment about "link smog," too.
Please see:
http://www.webreference.com/js/column12/crossbrowser.html
Do any browsers (other than Mozilla) allow their operators to add a
JavaScript procedure to the pop-up or pull-down menus, or as a new
browser button? I don't see how to use ordinary bookmarks for this.
You could keep a seperate window around with an onclick-scripted
button that opens a new window with your favorite dictionary's
definition looked up from the document selection.
Cheers,
James
