Nov 10, '05 07:05:00AM • Contributed by: robg
While testing the drag URL to Dock tip, I experimented with dragging and dropping 'normal' (non-URL) text snippets to docked applications. For the most part, nothing happens, but there are a few exceptions:
- Mail: Opens a new message with the dropped text as the body.
- Script Editor: Opens a new script (and tries to compile it!) with the dropped text.
- Text Edit: Opens a new document with the dropped text.
- Safari: Runs a Google search on the dropped text. Granted, not terribly useful if you're in a Cocoa application -- in these, you can just control-click any word or phrase and choose Google Search from the pop-up menu. And if your application supports the Services menu, you can hit Shift-Command-L. But if you're in Word or Excel or some other non-supported application, and you want to run a Google search on some text string, just drag and drop it to Safari's Dock icon. I tried Camino, Firefox, and OmniWeb, and none of them would do anything at all with a block of standard text (only URLs).
