10.5: Create Quick Look-capable 'webloc' files
Jan 07, '08 07:30:02AM
Contributed by: Anonymous
When I am working on a project I tend to save many different types of files in that project's folder. For example, research for a recent music-related article contained: PDFs, Pages documents, mp3s, Text documents, jpgs, and webloc files. While I really appreciate the new file types that are Quick Looked in Leopard, I am frustrated that bookmarks/weblocs just show up with the "@" icon.
Of course what's really called for is a Quick Look plugin, but until that time, here's what I did:
- Email webpage to yourself. In Safari, choose Safari » Mail Contents of This Page (or command Command-I).
- Drag that email from Mail to the project folder. This will create an email 'document' in that folder (linked to the message in Mail). The message has a low-res HMTL preview of the site that you bookmarked.
Now just highlight the file and hit the Space Bar to activate Quick Look. You will now have a properly-rendered HTML preview of the linked URL. This is kind of kludgy, but it seems to work. Also, if you click on a link inside the Quick Look preview, that link will open in your default browser.
This is tantalizing if nothing else, as it shows that most of the functionality is already there -- the Finder is now rendering HTML (for emails, at least) dragged to a folder. Of course, support for weblocs in Quick Look would be even better.
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