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Textile bookmarklet

13 May 2003

If you’re using Textpattern like me, or even the stand-alone Textile editor, you may find this bookmarklet useful. It copies the title of the page and url – in Textile URL format – to the clipboard.
Ready to paste right into a Textile window. Exceptionally useful when blogging. It’s IEwin only, I’m afraid.

Add this to your favorites: javascript:void(window.clipboardData.setData('Text',unescape('%22')+'('+document.title+')'+unescape('%22')+':'+document.location))

Any feedback or suggested modifications, let me know.

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Lonnie: Way cool idea. I am just a little bummed it doesn’t work in Mozilla.
  2. § Drew: I don’t believe there’s a nice x-browser method of copying data to the clipboard. Seems like a OS-specific tie in.

    What would be the next best option if the data wasn’t copied to the clipboard? How about a small popup window containing the text so that it could be copied manually?

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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