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Show HN: SelectorGadget

• tectonic 12y ago
  Chrome extension too: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/selectorgadget/mhjhnkcfbdhnjickkkdbjoemdmbfginb https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/selectorgadget/mhj...
• fizx 12y ago
  You ever think about making the mostly constructive version of this algorithm (rather than having the add and remove phases)? Let's say you have a page with links in headers and paragraphs. You want to select some subset of links. Rather than having the first click on a header link isolate "a", you could have the first click isolate "h2 a". Then you could construct the set of all links by adding paragraph links via a second click. This seems easier to reason about.
  • tectonic 12y ago
    Hey fizx! I think that'd be interesting, although it might often take more clicks to resolve.
    • fizx 12y ago
      Yeah, you lose the binary search aspect, but gain some ease of use.
• petercooper 12y ago
  SelectorGadget is one of few bookmarklets I always have to hand. Two reasons: 1) It makes incidentally grabbing or manipulating certain types of data off Web pages easy with JavaScript on the console. 2) It's handy when creating custom style sheets to tweak existing pages with potentially bizarre HTML structure.
• kybernetikos 12y ago
  I've used SuperSelector http://caplin.github.io/SuperSelector/superselector/ http://caplin.github.io/SuperSelector/superselector/ to find css classes for automated testing before, looks like this could do the same job.