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Quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map.

21 points by seren6ipity 19y ago

e1ven 19y ago
Nice tool! Imagemaps are underutilized- I had posted one way that I had considered using them, but your idea on how to use them could be a lot more useful. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77853 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77853 The performance seems a bit sporadic- Sometimes it'll work well, but othertimes I get a black page without the URL. Can you elaborate a bit on the way this works on the backend? It looks like it's using a Gecko backend- Are you rendering to the screen and then dumping, or are you using a custom back-end, just as the java-gecko port, and pulling directly from there?
- e1ven 19y ago
  http://kwout.com/quote/cfs2ukni http://kwout.com/quote/cfs2ukni It does seem to take the picture very quickly, and I can't seem to find a way to alter the delay. For instance- http://kwout.com/quote/8bmv7gyj http://kwout.com/quote/8bmv7gyj Additional requests of the same page seem quick, so I suspect it's doing some internal caching. http://kwout.com/quote/ujifehrw http://kwout.com/quote/ujifehrw Java does not seem to work- http://kwout.com/quote/sr4x5az8 http://kwout.com/quote/sr4x5az8 Passing it a PDF remains in the loading sceen for a long time, then gives a timeout error. It appears to have Flash working, but not shockwave http://kwout.com/quote/72rwdc36 http://kwout.com/quote/72rwdc36 I was able to confirm the caching- I hit this page several times, but have the same version. http://kwout.com/quote/a4v7gyjb http://kwout.com/quote/a4v7gyjb I like it ;)
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kirubakaran 19y ago
It doesn't work well when the target website uses Flash - Google Finance for instance. However I found it interesting and voted +1.
k4st 19y ago
Sort of like browsershots, but taken to the next level. Took a while for the image to show up but once that happened it was quite cool. This seems particularly useful where you want to be able to quote images/diagrams from a page, tables, etc. In terms of text, it is not particularly useful unless the text provides a specific context for the images being "quoted". On the whole, very cool. Otherwise, is the logo meant to look like a bbcode, ie: that capturing a screen shot is as easy as using bbcode? Or am I digging too deep into this?
larrykubin 19y ago
That's crazy. My friend and I just spent a few days over the holidays building a quote site using Django. Ours is at http://www.snipquote.com http://www.snipquote.com if you want to check it out. You install a firefox extension, then highlight text on any web page, right click and SnipQuote.
- seren6ipity 19y ago
  Both the sites have completely different application.

21 points by seren6ipity 19y ago

e1ven 19y ago

Nice tool! Imagemaps are underutilized- I had posted one way that I had considered using them, but your idea on how to use them could be a lot more useful. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77853 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77853 The performance seems a bit sporadic- Sometimes it'll work well, but othertimes I get a black page without the URL. Can you elaborate a bit on the way this works on the backend? It looks like it's using a Gecko backend- Are you rendering to the screen and then dumping, or are you using a custom back-end, just as the java-gecko port, and pulling directly from there?

e1ven 19y ago
http://kwout.com/quote/cfs2ukni http://kwout.com/quote/cfs2ukni It does seem to take the picture very quickly, and I can't seem to find a way to alter the delay. For instance- http://kwout.com/quote/8bmv7gyj http://kwout.com/quote/8bmv7gyj Additional requests of the same page seem quick, so I suspect it's doing some internal caching. http://kwout.com/quote/ujifehrw http://kwout.com/quote/ujifehrw Java does not seem to work- http://kwout.com/quote/sr4x5az8 http://kwout.com/quote/sr4x5az8 Passing it a PDF remains in the loading sceen for a long time, then gives a timeout error. It appears to have Flash working, but not shockwave http://kwout.com/quote/72rwdc36 http://kwout.com/quote/72rwdc36 I was able to confirm the caching- I hit this page several times, but have the same version. http://kwout.com/quote/a4v7gyjb http://kwout.com/quote/a4v7gyjb I like it ;)
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kirubakaran 19y ago

It doesn't work well when the target website uses Flash - Google Finance for instance. However I found it interesting and voted +1.

k4st 19y ago

Sort of like browsershots, but taken to the next level. Took a while for the image to show up but once that happened it was quite cool. This seems particularly useful where you want to be able to quote images/diagrams from a page, tables, etc. In terms of text, it is not particularly useful unless the text provides a specific context for the images being "quoted". On the whole, very cool. Otherwise, is the logo meant to look like a bbcode, ie: that capturing a screen shot is as easy as using bbcode? Or am I digging too deep into this?

larrykubin 19y ago

That's crazy. My friend and I just spent a few days over the holidays building a quote site using Django. Ours is at http://www.snipquote.com http://www.snipquote.com if you want to check it out. You install a firefox extension, then highlight text on any web page, right click and SnipQuote.

seren6ipity 19y ago
Both the sites have completely different application.