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Editing in something accessible online -- like Google Docs -- is just so much easier than dealing with the form. You should write to clearly emphasize your po
by ivankirigin 19y ago
Editing in something accessible online -- like Google Docs -- is just so much easier than dealing with the form.
You should write to clearly emphasize your point, and only when you're done ask yourself if you've violated the spirit of the 120 word limit.
- Tichy 19y agoWell it seemed like a good opportunity to try out Greasemonkey at the time (wrote it for the last application cycle). Just thought the one or other applicant might appreciate it. The bookmarklet somebody else posted might be more elegant, though. Also I had been looking for word count scripts like that and didn't find any, so maybe it can be useful for other web sites, too (it works for the news.yc comment form, for example).
- ivankirigin 19y agoI would love a more powerful right-click menu. I'd like to highlight a bunch of text, and have the word count told to me. A script for a single site isn't as useful.
- tlrobinson 19y agohttp://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2007/12/27/word-count-bookmarklet http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2007/12/27/word-count-book... It's a bookmarklet rather than a context menu item though. Someone should write a Firefox plugin that lets you run arbitrary JavaScript from the context menu.