Duke, As I understand it, there isn't an easy way to capture HTML from within a browser without a plug-in--because the javascript can't get access to the full clipboard data with the HTML in it.
I'd love to be wrong about that, but I worked through this with Drag & Drop between HTML pages. That uses the clipboard, just like copy & paste: you can get the source URL and the TXT version of the source content from within javascript, but not the source HTML. Again... correct me if someone knows how to do that. Maybe things have changed or I'm just in error. However, I am working on a plug-in based solution for this, using TiddlyWiki. We (SwitchBook) are building a bit more than just a scrapbooking tool, but one thing we will enable is a way to capture from web pages and have that auto-import as a Tiddler in a TiddlyWiki hosted in the explorer (vertical) toolbar for IE on the PC. Eventually, we'll get to Firefox and then to Mac and Linux. The trick is that we are relying on access to the browser DOM to get the capture data (and a bunch of behavioral data as well) so we can render it accurately later. Eventually, we'll be able to easily do a bunch of cool TiddlyWiki stuff with content captured from websites, and yes, we'll make it easy to load your own TiddlyWiki app into the plug-in window, so you can capture to your own TiddlyWiki if that's what you want to do. As Mike S. mentions, there are a lot of tricky things to get the captures to work right. Hopefully we can solve that problem in a way lots of folks can use. We are still in development and while we met a bunch of the TiddlyWiki community at Tiddly West last year, this is really the first introduction to the community at large. Hello. =) You can get a sense of what we are working towards in the following blog posts. We call it User-driven Search, and there isn't much at our official website yet. http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2008/07/12/towards-user-driven-search/ http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2008/07/20/notes-on-user-driven-search/ http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/01/19/farewell-google-notebook-move-over-sea rchwiki-we-need-a-search-map/ We intend to release all of client-side code (Tiddly and Plug-in) as open source. (Hopefully sooner rather than later.) We'll also release a reference implementation of the server out under open source. So, greetings fellow TiddlyWikiers. Nice to meet you all and I'm looking forward to getting to know more of you. If you are curious or want to get involved, drop me a line or post a question to the list. We're fairly open about what we're trying to do. Cheers, -j -- Joe Andrieu SwitchBook http://www.switchbook.com j...@switchbook.com +1 (805) 705-8651 > -----Original Message----- > From: TiddlyWiki@googlegroups.com [mailto:tiddlyw...@googlegroups.com] > On Behalf Of dukeja > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 8:23 AM > To: TiddlyWiki > Subject: [tw] Capture web page with formatting > > > One thing I found most limiting me in use TiddlyWiki as information or > knowledge management is the difficulty to "snip" or "clipping" a > section or a whole page into Tiddly Wiki. (Actually, it is not easy > to maintain web page format to cut&paste web content into MS Word or > OneNote). I have heard Tiddlysnip, but it seems only works for plain > text mode. Rich text mode operation is in its ToDo list. > > I have tried to use some wysigwyg editor (fckeditor) and cut&paste web > content into a tiddler. The results are mixing. Some pages are > copied with very good format accuracy. Others may fail totally. I > know it is my naiveness to comprehend how technically difficult it > is. But I wonder if anyone can provide some hint on how to do it > correctly. E.g. copy web content into Nvu? or save the web page and > then imported with some plugin? > > Thanks for the help! > > Duke > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to TiddlyWiki@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
