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eskatos Registered Member Posts 2 Karma 0	[Plasma] WebClip Plasmoid Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:41 pm Hi, The Web Browser and RSS plasmoid are nice but I miss something that would be more like the Apple WebClip [1]. This allows you to select an area in a web page and make a widget out of it. The 'webclip' plasmoid would display the choosen web page subzone and refresh its content periodicaly. This way you are able to watch a content without available RSS and it's working as soon as it is displayable by a web renderer. What do you think ? [1] http://iuseapple.com/blog/apple-how-to/ ... th-safari/ /Paul
TheBlackCat Registered Member Posts 2945 Karma 8 OS	RE: [Plasma] WebClip Plasmoid Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:36 pm I like this idea. It sounds very useful. Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. -NASA in 1965
MirzaD Registered Member Posts 86 Karma 0 OS	[Plasma] WebClip Plasmoid Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:44 pm It looks like widget that would parse only a part of web page HTML... That could be extremely useful +1
Madman Registered Member Posts 593 Karma 1 OS	[Plasma] WebClip Plasmoid Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:09 pm I suppose something like this could be done with an iFrame on the plasma webkit canvas, or something similar... Madman, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct.
The User KDE Developer Posts 647 Karma 0 OS	[Plasma] WebClip Plasmoid Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:48 pm Do you want to select graphical (from 120,120 to 400,400) or logical (this div) sections? What's the apple-way?
dflemstr Registered Member Posts 29 Karma 0 OS	[Plasma] WebClip Plasmoid Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:28 pm ^ The only thing that would make sense would be to capture a region (pixel-based) from a usability POV. Otherwise, you'd have to capture all of the elements in front of the captured element, too, and stylesheets from the <head> tag etc. It's just easier to clip a region. Individual HTML elements could be used to "guide" where the selection goes, however (so that the selection frame snaps to HTML element frames, and the selection resizes if an "snapped" HTML element side moves, which could happen if content is added etc.)
The User KDE Developer Posts 647 Karma 0 OS	[Plasma] WebClip Plasmoid Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:52 pm Well, with selection-adjustment or without, that was my question.