Cocoalicious 1.0b38
I’m pretty mired in a variety of difficult Cocoalicious “science projects” right now (including local caching of del.icio.us posts and improved full text indexing), but I keep getting emails asking me to integrate a new patch Gus sent me to improve his original del.icio.us URL scheme support, so I’m rolling a special build just to do that.
The new patch adds “extended” and “tags” parameters to the URL scheme, which means that now we can offer an improved bookmarklet that takes advantage of the Javascript window.getSelection() method to send the browser window text selection to Cocoalicious for use as the new post’s extended text. I think Gus and I will both be a bit curious to see if anyone figures out a clever way to take advantages of the new “tags” parameter.
You can get the update from the usual place. Enjoy!
November 13th, 2005 at 5:57 pm
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone took the extended text and figured out how to automate the unloading of their dishwasher, or maybe mow their lawn with it.
I’ve seen way too many weird things done with software. But yea, it does always make me curious what they’ll come up with next.
November 14th, 2005 at 10:19 pm
Hey guys, thanks for getting this out, I’ve been using the ‘getSelection’ bookmarklet for ages, and it’s been the main reason that I haven’t switched to posting via Cocoalicious.
It works really well, although personally, I’ve added quote marks to the Extended description, since I’m quoting the page. ; )
One benefit of the local client could be integrating the Summarise system service (which Cocoa browsers can also use), to shorten longer passages to fit the description limit, but at the moment the fields don’t currently support system services.
In the future, Cocoalicious could assist the user in fitting into the description field limit, giving a character count down (like an SMS), and applying the text summary APIs via a slider.
But this was meant to be ‘thanks’, not bugging for more features! : )
November 14th, 2005 at 10:24 pm
Great suggestions, thanks Marc!
December 18th, 2005 at 3:33 am
The best program Cocoalicious. We wait for updating.
December 28th, 2005 at 8:30 am
There will be a updating whether or not? It is very important.
December 29th, 2005 at 2:33 pm
Hi Buzz. I was messing with the Cocoalicious interface to make it more ‘Tiger’ like, let me know if you would like to see what I hacked up.