Thanks very much, Ed.
I'll check out the URL's that you suggested for 'bookmarklets' - a term
which is new to me. Since I do use Netscape 4.74, I'll check out the "bug"
URL as well.
I'll be first in line when you finish your new app!
A - who also finds early 1800 Census returns a good read - in Canada
On 3/16/01 at 7:53 PM Ed Bockelman wrote:
>There are two bookmarklets that may be of use to you. They can both be
found at
>the following page:
>
>http://www.bookmarklets.com/tools/navigation/index.phtml
>
>One is "Find any in page". You can type a series of words and it will
show you
>the first of those words to appear. The only drawback is if you hit F3,
to find
>next, it will only find the same word it just found. However, it obviates
one
>frustration I've often had: That of having "search string not found" over
and
>over.
>
>The other is "Show Occurrences of Word". This is like Ctrl+F except that
>instead of needing to press F3 to see all the next occurrences, you just
wait
>and it shows them to you in slide show fashion.
>
>Sorry, these are probably not the most wonderful tools in the world.
However,
>they do give you more flexibility. BTW, if you are using Netscape 4.7
you'll
>need to read the following:
>
>http://www.bookmarklets.com/NS47bug.html
>
>(If you don't know what bookmarklets are, just visit
>http://www.bookmarklets.com/)
>
>Here are a couple more ideas. One, you can download all the pages to your
hard
>drive and use Agent Ransack to search. (http://www.agentransack.com/) It
>provides a very readable display of all the occurences of the keywords in
all
>pages.
>
>The last is a tool I'm developing right now. When I do finally complete
it, it
>will be perfect for the job you are dealing with. Sorry I can't be more
>immediately helpful.
>
>I hope some of these suggestions help.
>
>Ed
