On Dec 11, 2009, at 6:18 AM, Joshua Juran wrote:
I usually copy the title from the Web page itself (except for pages
which don't bother to repeat the title in the page[1] (HATE) --
since the browser doesn't offer a convenient way to copy the <title>
content[2] (HATE)). On a normal page, I can triple-click in FireFox
to select an item or paragraph -- perfect. But in Safari, not only
do you get trailing newlines, but pasting into Mail activates the
double-spacing mystery mode.
Two things that might help:
- paste and match style
- add a bookmarklet to get you both in your preferred style, copy the
result. Something like javascript:alert(document.title
+'\n'+window.location); You might even be able to make that copy it to
the pasteboard as well.
As to the mystery mode: (contains little hate, feel free to ignore)
I just tried this, and couldn't get it to happen*, but it's probably
because when you paste something from Safari you're pasting in HTML
(and the two paragraphs I tried weren't the right kind of paragraphs
or something). Which brings along CSS, or at least tries to. And in
HTML land <p> tags have a space in between paragraphs. Insert
obligatory HTML hate here. As to why this happens from Safari and not
Firefox I'm at a loss.
* is there anything worse than inconsistent hateful behavior?
~patrick
