A neat aspect of this is that you can also use it to edit webpages based on the current structure in a WYSIWYG fashion. Just go to some page (Hacker News, Facebook, etc.), press Command-A, Command-C, open this URL into a new tab, and press Command-V.
Each keypress would direct you to a new URL derived from a hash of the new text, an approach that takes advantage of browser history to provide a built-in undo function. Fans of this “content-addressable text editor” say it reminds them that writing is ultimately a grand exploration of Borges’ Library of Babel.
I tried the GUI tools. But what I love about the web interface is the ability to CTRL + F anything on the page. And I can also "copy" any text I want in it.
Thanks! The intention is that you are always editing the current page - each page is just a textarea really. The # button shows the json content of the entire wiki, which you can edit as well. It's absolutely a toy like you say! But quite fun.
This is really slick. I think it'd be great as a browser plugin so I could use it almost like an accessibility tool on sites with horrid typography. It seems better than cmd++.
looks like lots of work went into this. it work great. respect. one suggestion. you made me click on article and it zoomed alright, my second thought was i can double click to close it down which obviously did not happen - and believe it it took minute to figure there is a close button on the top lol.
if you made me assume that i can click on the text anywhere to navigate, I immediately stop looking for buttons. adding double click would be awesome. thanks!
- what are the usage terms. can I build a project using this?
I want to be able to edit anything on my screen in ways defined by me:
"hide any faces"
"put a red circle around any animal"
"hide any word under three letters"
Super cool! I built a similar tool a few years back but never followed through on making it open to the public. Love seeing that I'm not the only one who yearns for more fun page editing tools.
I'm loving this. It didn't seem like the most useful feature when I first heard about it, but it seems pretty well implemented. (Using the current nightly).
The pagemod and inspect commands seem super useful. I hate having to click around an inspector to find the thing I want -- "inspect #foo > h3" just seems so much easier.
Unfortunately, the page looks ugly because I suck at design, and you're making me do the design. So it ends up looking really tacky.
Perhaps this "click anywhere and type/edit" technology can be used to annotate webpages (or even iPaper PDFs). I know I'd use it for those purposes if I could.
That's really neat - as you can edit the page you're on, which changes the visibility or styling of the source code of the page. Until you can no longer see the source code depending on which styles you change...
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