One of my co-workers has started experimenting with custom search plugins for Firefox. So far she has several ready to go, and they’re listed on her site. Searching our catalog and A to Z list right from the browser are my two favorites.
She made these using SearchPlugins.net, which apparently makes creation, editing, and other maintenance of plugins pretty easy.
Comments closedWell, I’d thought things would be less busy for me this week, but it seems that I have one more week of crunch time before life settles down. Such is life, I guess. Or such is my life, at any rate.
But while you sit and ponder how lovely it’ll be when I start really blogging again, you can pass the time by watching this video. All I can say is, “Wow… Wowy-wow-wow-wow.”
I’ve now subscribed to the TED talk videos. (Here’s the feed, which was surprisingly difficult to find.)
7 CommentsLong story short (ish)…
Walt liked a blog post but reminded me that I’ve never been able to figure out how to make blogger cough up a good style for printing posts.
I whined that I don’t know how to fix it.
Dorothea and Steve worked HARD to help me fix it.
Steve was the first to come up with an absolutely fantasta-brilliant solution, to which I added a little bit of nothingness to just so I could pretend to have participated in this effort, and which I now offer up to the blogger world. (Hint, if what I write makes no sense, check out my source code. It’s all there … Oh, and what I’m writing is not in “real” tech-speak, because I don’t speak that language very well. Also, Blogger “cleans up” tags in the body of posts and makes them invisible, so I sometimes have to describe tags rather than type them. Sorry. Blame Blogger.)
First, wrap all of your current style like this:
@media screen {[all styles go here]}
The opening curly bracket goes just above /* Defaults and the closing curly bracket goes just above ]]> and the closing b:skin tag, which I can’t type here because blogger WILL NOT leave it in the text.
Then, between your new closing curly bracket and the mysterious closing b:skin tag, put your print style, which looks like this (except that you bracket the style lines with “<" and ">” like regular HTML, which if I do here blogger “cleans up,” so I’ve left off the <> brackets):
[opening bracket here]style media="'print'" type="'text/css'"[closing bracket here]
body {
background: white;
font-size: 12pt;
font-family:Palatino,'Times New Roman',times,serif;
}
#sidebar {display:none;}
#bottom {display: none}
#footer {display: none}
#blog-pager-newer-link {display: none}
#blog-pager-older-link {display: none}
#blog-pager {display: none}
.feed-links {display: none}
.profile-datablock {display: none}
.profile-textblock {display: none}
.profile-data {display: none; }
.profile-img {display: none; }
.comment-footer {display: none; }
.description {display: none; }
.post-footer {display: none; }
[opening bracket here]/style[closing bracket here]
After this comes that mysterious b:skin tag, and then the closing header tag. And now things should print beautifully. Happy printing.
p.s. Wondering why I talk about beating rocks? Wonder no longer.
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