I’ve updated the TextMarker! Firefox extension to support the latest release of the browser. I had been neglecting this little piece of software for a long time. With over 250 weekly downloads this is something I should have done ages ago.
TextMarker! is a Firefox extension that lets you highlight text on webpages and allows you to copy those highlights to the clipboard.
Its primary use is as a research tool for bloggers and students. I have been told it is used in a few school libraries in some countries. It has been translated into 4 languages with the help of users.
You can download TextMarker! version 0.3.3 here.
I am now working on porting the extension to Google Chrome.
"I am now working on porting the extension to Google Chrome." = good news !!!
When do you think we will be able to download and check it out ???
very nice plugin looking forward for crome extenstion as well
thanks
Hello Simon,
thanks a lot for coding this!
Here's an idea for an improvement that would make it just perfect for my needs (and other people's, too, I suppose.) Would it be possible to include a function that
#1 copies highlighted text to the Windows clipboard,
#2 automatically adds predefined text (like URL, time and date) to that clipboard copy?
Effectively, this would be a combination of TextMarker and another extension called QuoteURLText. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4292/
Oops, I just noticed that it does that already! I don't know why I couldn't find it at first.
Still, it would be nice to have more formating options, as in QuoteURL (putting quotes around copied text, adding a time stamp, etc.).
Hey thanks ThomasM. I'll note those feature requests for future use.
Hi Simon,
Many thanks for the awesome plugin!
Since I had used https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quoteurltext/versions/1.0.9b for a while (and it seems not to be maintained anymore), I copied portions of that code, thereby adding a formatting facility for the copy (along with customizable separator for "copy all highlights")
Patch is here:
http://sdaaubckp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sdaaubckp/patches/textmarker-jar-0.3.4sd-quoteurltext.patch?view=markup
Screenshots here:
http://sdaaubckp.sourceforge.net/post/textmarker-quoteurltext/
If you fancy this functionality - I'd definitely love to see it implemented in a future version of TextMarkup!
Thanks again for the great plugin,
Cheers!
And another bump from me: just used TextMarker within an extension that also includes Scintilla (Scite) as a plugin, please see http://sdaaubckp.sf.net/ext/quTextMark-SciMozFB/quTextMark-SciMozFB-doc.htm ... Thanks again, Simon!
I've just found some bugs in TextMarker! when marking text with links and text in different HTML elements (e,i, unclosed tags in selection). How about open sourcing TextMarker? Both Bitbucket and Github are excellent for sharing code.
Cheers, Jon