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"Favelets"
Authored by: the_webmaestro on Mar 26, '03 10:49:39AM
This "tip" is something else RobG might want to move to stardom status, like the other e-mail one (a great tip, BTW).

The reason I mention this, is that it's not just for full screen, but what if you need to see what your web site looks like at 800x600? Or 640x480? When I was a code-monkey at buy.com, we used these little favelets to check our pages to make certain they did not have a horizontal scrollbar at 800x600 (one of our minimum requirements at the time). Tantek Çelik (project lead for Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac v4x&5x) has created http://favelets.com/ a web site devoted to what he calls "favelets"--little bookmark javascript programs which can be used to do various things with the browser.

You can try these favelets right now by clicking them:

  • 640x480:
      javascript:void(window.resizeTo(640,480))
  • 800x600:
      javascript:void(window.resizeTo(800,600))
  • 1024x768:
      javascript:void(window.resizeTo(1024,768))
(just drag any of these to your toolbar!) There are also favelets to validate the current page, list all stylesheets, list style rules, view images, etc. Some work only in Mac IE 5, but many work in Windows as well. Some, like the reSizeTo() favelets, also work in Mozilla/Netscape. There're also links to other pages of favelets. BTW, some favelets which don't work in Windows IE from the personal toolbar *will* work if accessed from within an HTML page. Enjoy! ;-p

Web Maestro Clay p.s. These window resizers also work in Windows Explorer, although you have to hit the [Back] button after clicking them.

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"Favelets"
Authored by: googoo on Mar 26, '03 11:26:51AM

You have an error in the 1024x768 javascript code. Replace the "x" with a comma, and it will work. Try this link:

  • 1024x768
    javascript:void(window.resizeTo(1024,768))

PS: Great hint, though! Thanks.



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"Favelets"
Authored by: bluehz on Mar 26, '03 01:08:45PM

Couple of other nice favelet (aka bookmarkets) sites:

http://www.bookmarklets.com/tools/categor.html
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/
http://www.webreference.com/js/column35/



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