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Cleanup web pages before printing in Safari
Authored by: webDeclutter on Dec 01, '10 10:11:52AM

I have recently written a JavaScript bookmarklet which can perform this task quite simply by clicking on a tooltip interface. Please visit web-declutter dot com. This tool is purely 'gratis' - I have developed it as an interesting exercise whilst learning JavaScript programming and web design.

It provides the facility to remove individual elements and, via a 'container heirarchy', whole blocks of elements from a page. Control-clicking removes everything EXCEPT the element/container (I am a Windows user - I believe the Mac equivalent is Cmd-click?) . There is also a 'Quick' version which removes all of the Flash content in one click.

The tool can also be helpful for saving a page to hard drive, ie you can save your lean decluttered web page to the hard drive - BUT unfortunately that feature only works on Chrome and Firefox (though these are great browsers, and it would be handy to have them installed for this feature alone). Safari and IE8 appear to download the original page from the host again rather than use the one you have just cleaned up.

The tool works on all major browsers, including older versions, and on any kind of page, not just 'article' type pages. I have placed a video illustration on YouTube (search for 'Web Declutter Illustration') (though there is a video on the above site also).

The tool does require some idea of what is meant by an 'element' and a 'container' in the context of a web page, though other than that its quite easy to use.

If anyone has any comments/questions or notes any bugs please visit the Feedback or Contact section of the above site, thanks!



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