Comments on: Multiple Columns Bookmarklet http://blog.patspam.com/2007/multiple-columns-bookmarklet patspam patspam patspam Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:34:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: Patrick http://blog.patspam.com/2007/multiple-columns-bookmarklet/comment-page-1#comment-354 Patrick Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:09:44 +0000 http://blog.patspam.com/2007/10/05/multiple-columns-bookmarklet/#comment-354 @andy: yeah good idea, you could hardwire it to certain chunks of text and have a convenience link for visitors (although it currently only works for Firefox so a lot of visitors wouldn't be able to use it). The intended use of the bookmarklet though is for when you're viewing other people's sites, in which case you need to be able to select some arbitrary chunk of text within the context of their entire site layout. @andy: yeah good idea, you could hardwire it to certain chunks of text and have a convenience link for visitors (although it currently only works for Firefox so a lot of visitors wouldn’t be able to use it). The intended use of the bookmarklet though is for when you’re viewing other people’s sites, in which case you need to be able to select some arbitrary chunk of text within the context of their entire site layout.

]]> By: andy http://blog.patspam.com/2007/multiple-columns-bookmarklet/comment-page-1#comment-353 andy Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:55:47 +0000 http://blog.patspam.com/2007/10/05/multiple-columns-bookmarklet/#comment-353 I like it, Pat. A really nice feature. I hadn't really thought about it before but you're right - reading in columns is so much easier on the eye. The big online papers seem to set a max width for their pages to avoid huge chunks of text rolling across the page and that just cheats those of us with extra screen real estate. Selecting text or multiple paragraphs before clicking the link is a little clunky. I assume you can assign these options to some links at the top of an article? I like it, Pat. A really nice feature. I hadn’t really thought about it before but you’re right – reading in columns is so much easier on the eye. The big online papers seem to set a max width for their pages to avoid huge chunks of text rolling across the page and that just cheats those of us with extra screen real estate.

Selecting text or multiple paragraphs before clicking the link is a little clunky. I assume you can assign these options to some links at the top of an article?

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