Thanks to the many comments I had about the split bookmarklets, I updated them and here they are:
- split horizontally in current window -> drag to your bookmark folder
- split vertically in current window -> drag to your bookmark folder
the main changes are:
- they work on on Internet Explorer 6 (many thanks to this anonymous commenter)
- Firefox throbber is stopped once the frames loading is finished
- the scrollbars appear only in the frames and not in Firefox (on some sites, it still does not work…)
I’m by no means a JavaScript wizard but I find quite amazing the difficulties to get such a simple javascript code to work on different browsers. With that little experience, I’m even more impressed by web applications using JavaScript like Gmail (Oddpost is also worth to take a look but they made their job easier by only targeting Internet Explorer).
August 20th, 2004 at 3:05
Great job!! Works as advertised in both Firefox and IE…QUESTION: Is there a ‘reverse action‘ to the split bookmarklets … that is, to go from a split view back to a regular view besides going ‘Back’?
August 20th, 2004 at 10:18
I’m happy you find this bookmarklets useful.
It should be possible to write a bookmarklets which takes the URL of one of the frame and load it in the window. But IMHO, it’s better to leverage the feature of the browser and the “back” button is Good Enough for me.
October 15th, 2006 at 23:16
Does not work in IE7…..I know you didn’t say it did, but if MS is going to force IE6 uers to update, it may be something orth looking into.
October 15th, 2006 at 23:21
Does not work in Firefox 1.5.0.7.