A list of hyperlink URL’s for a printed webpage
Do you ever have a problem when reading a printed page from a blog or a website that you come across a word that has an underline under it as it is a hyperlink, and you wonder where does this link to…not only can you not launch to this hyperlink, but you don’t even know it’s URL…so the printed page is very limited in this aspect.
Very similar to a previous post, I would like to hit a bookmarklet to generate a list of hyperlinks on a given webpage, and then secondly be able to print this as a numbered list of hyperlinks placed at the end of the print out, and each number would match up to an annotated number on each hyperlink in the body of the page.
This way, when reading a printed web page, you can then know what URL a hyperlink points to…now to be able to press it with my index finger and…yeah right, I think I need a lap top.
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How about the bookmarklet described here. There are *huge* usability issues arising from a simple, literal implementation of this! (also - i don’t know if the printing bit works…)
tony
Comment by Tony Hirst — March 13, 2006 @ 11:52 am
Well, about a year ago I made a bookmarklet which does exactly what you descibe. I had a daily commute for about half an hour and I wanted to use the time to read printed articles from the web.
See:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jlpoutre/BoT/bookmarklets.html#annotateLinks
A Greasemonkey version enhances this concept by adding the links and refernces only for the printed page, so you will get “annotated” links only on printed output.
See:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jlpoutre/BoT/Javascript/AnnotateLinks/
There’s one problem: very wide URLs will extend beyond the standard paper width, messing up page layout.
Comment by Joe — March 14, 2006 @ 2:06 pm