tool to highlight text in browser?

J

Jack Sprat

Years ago, I had an add-on tool for Internet Explorer that allowed me to
mark and highlight text displayed in the browser. I marked the text, and
right clicked on it which displayed a menu and one of the new options was
highlight (it highlighted the text like using a yellow marker). I believe
there were a few other tools in the package, but I can't recall them - I
only used the highlighter.

I can't recall where I got this tool.. I think it was from Microsoft, but I
can't be sure. Can anyone help?

Paul Leduc
 
J

Jon Kennedy

Web Accessories for Internet Explorer 5
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/ie5wa.asp
The tool you mention should work fine in IE 6. Others may need tweaking. The following is courtesy of Jim Byrd, MS-MVP:

It works fine in IE6 except that you'll need to do an F5 Refresh on the
blank page that the Images List click brings up to finally get them.
Thorsten Gudera has created both German and English "corrected"
Versions of imglist.htm which fix this. You can contact him here:
Thorsten.GuderaATt-online.de (replace AT with @ sign). For Toggle
Images (which you'll find on your Links toolbar), remember that you'll
have to refresh after toggling to see the effects on the current page.
(BTW, if you place a shortcut to it on your Quick Launch toolbar or
wherever, you can also use it to prevent spam HTML emails from "calling
home".)

Here's also a fix for "Copy Location" courtesy of a poster nicknamed
Caveman I've verified that this works fine for Win2kPro and should for
any other OS as well:

"Use Notepad to open GRABURL.HTM (found usually in WINDOWS\WEB), and
edit as
shown below:

[FIND:]------------------------------------------------
document.all.location.value = win.document.location.href;
[REPLACE WITH:]----------------------------------------
document.all.location.value = win.location.href;
[END]

(so, the only thing to do is removing ".document" from the line)"


Be aware also that there is a bug in the Zoom functions. The following
is a (modified)
quote of a previous posting by Alan Edwards of a previous quote by Ron
Vernon which outlines the fix: Regards, Jim Byrd


"I have not checked recently if the error has been corrected.
Without looking at your attachments, I assume you have made
adjustments like this old post by Ron Vernon MVP, which I made myself.
------quote
This is a bug in the web accessories.

To fix it, use Notepad to open ZOOMIN.HTM (found usually in
WINDOWS\WEB ),
and edit it to read both image dimensions before setting any of them:

old contents:
....
h = parentwin.event.srcElement.height * 2;
parentwin.event.srcElement.height = h;
w = parentwin.event.srcElement.width * 2;
parentwin.event.srcElement.width = w;
....

new contents (the 3rd line in the fragment above moved up):
....
h = parentwin.event.srcElement.height * 2;
w = parentwin.event.srcElement.width * 2;
parentwin.event.srcElement.height = h;
parentwin.event.srcElement.width = w;
....

Do the same for ZOOMOUT.HTM changing '*' to a '/'
..
 
J

Jack Sprat

Web Accessories for Internet Explorer 5
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/ie5wa.asp
The tool you mention should work fine in IE 6. Others may need tweaking.
The following is courtesy of Jim Byrd, MS-MVP:

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
Exactly what I was looking for.

May I ask how you found this? I did repeated searches on the MS site in the
downloads section for "highlight" and "highlighter" and never found it.

Paul
 
J

Jon Kennedy

You're most welcome. Oh, I've had that tool's URL squirreled away for quite some time now - since it came out.
 

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