"David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote in message news:ud62do956.fsf@boost-consulting.com...
"Jonathan Turkanis" <technews@kangaroologic.com> writes:
Maybe a 'tool tip' could clear things up -- but I'm afraid this would fall into the 'just annoying in general' category.
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Yes. This is good. I was hoping for a one word solution, but maybe this is the best we can do.
It should do two things:
1. Copy the link to the clipboard if possible
I believe copying to the clipboard is basically a microsoft feature. It can be done on Mozilla/Netscape only if the user grants 'enhanced privileges' to a site -- the browser displays a dialog with a cryptic message that says nothing about the clipboard. It's easy to enable this feature only microsoft browsers, but it seems a bit inappropriate for Boost to have a site which is 'best viewed with Internet Explorer'.
2. Display the link in the address field of the browser
It should have a tooltip that tells you what it will do.
How's this: "reloads current page with a url suitable for bookmarking" ?
Ideally of course there would be no need for this link and we'd always see a linkable address in the browser's address field.
Reece Dunne asked this question, and I was going to paste my reply here but I see it's not quite correct. The way to do this would be to replace each link of the form <a href='reference/copy.html'>copy</a> with one like: <a target='_top' href='reference/copy.html?path=1.7.2'>copy</a> Obviously, this makes it very difficult to write and maintain documentation unless it is automated. A problem that remains even if the docs are automatically generated is that links within a page cause the browser to reload instead of just scroll. I'd love synchronization to be automatic but I just don't see how to do it.
I take it this is only possible on some browsers?
When a new document is loaded into an internal frame, some browsers will display the url in the address bar. I'm not sure that this is a feature, though, since if you bookmark the page you loose the context. I think I'll make this question the first FAQ. Jonathan