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A quick html / js tip (as recorded in my palm’s MemoDB)

April 12th, 2005 Shayne No comments

How to use External Javascripts to keep links etc the same over various pages in a web site

2005-04-12

Create Javascript with appropriate text

function bottom_links()
{
document.write('<p>');
document.write('<a href="#top">Top</a> ');
document.write('|  ');
}

Save the file as file.js

Import the JS file into your html file

Type the following into the <head> section of the html file:

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript" SRC="file.js"></SCRIPT>

Call the function somewhere in the html file and the text will be inserted as programmed

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">bottom_links()</script>

You can now change the links as you like and all the pages where the java is used can show the updated text!!

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More on gmail

July 1st, 2004 Shayne No comments

Gmail is starting to look nice. Some problems, but otherwise looking pretty sweet. A quick summary:

Bad:

  • I’m having a bit of trouble understanding the search syntax, and am a bit annoyed that you can’t use all of the options in your filters.
  • I wish you could look at two folders at once, either AND or OR

Good:

  • Is working nicely with my spamgourmet addresses, even my contacts have the correct reply-to address (that goes via spamgourmet in them)
  • Looks good
  • Fast. Loads itself automatically. No having to refresh to get mail. When you make a change (add or remove a lable, archive, delete or anything) it refreshes very fast. I have used lots of other webmails and seen nothing like this.
  • Update:The way “coversations” are grouped together is great. It is more effective that it first looks. Even works for threads in mailing lists (though if the subjects get messed about with it doesn’t do so well)
  • Update:The “show/hide quoted text” option is fantastic. Gets rid of the footers at the bottom of the above mentioned mailing list “conversations”

I’m really starting to think it could be a worthwhile “email anywhere” system. I have redirected most of my other email address to @gmail.com and am giving it a really good beta-test!

Oh, and I was given my first invitation to give away yesterday. Welcome to gmail Kish!

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Update on email views

June 27th, 2004 Shayne No comments

Went looking around today to see what I could do to get gmail working a bit more like yahoo (as I have suddenly discovered isn’t so bad)

Found this first of all: Spamgourmet which is quite a way to generate disposable email addresses on-the-fly. Quite handy.

Have only just started looking at it really, but I think it will do the job well (and seems to be a freely available, open-sourced program which is good too (and the service is free).

If you’d like to test it for me, email me here.

I found another similar program too (I forget the name now…) which looked better in some regards, but it specifically mentioned using it for keeping your flash new gmail address safe and the web page wasn’t complete (the ‘help’) page was unfinished for example), so it didn’t really evoke trust.

As to the POP access, there seem to be a couple of programs written that act like yahooPOPs, but for now I figure that is not so important. Downloading your gmail would sort of defeat the purpose of gmails added features anyway. And this is supposed to be beta – I am supposed to be testing it after all!

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Well, I got my gmail, but now what?

June 24th, 2004 Shayne No comments

I actually logged in to blogger the other day, rather than just viewing
it (or even ignoring that I am supposed to be writing to it) and
lo-and-behold, what do I see but a gmail invitation?

Like I said in my April post, the only reason I started blogging (if you
can call it that) was to see if I could score an invite, but now that I
have got one it seems a little bit of an anticlimax.

Why?

I have one word for you: Yahoo!

I know that they (Yahoo) have only increased their mail limit to (try)
to match google’s, but I’m not terribly excited by large mailboxes
anyway. I delete my mail when I use a desktop client and don’t try to
keep it forever, so why would I want to using a web mail service?

No, it’s Yahoo!Mail’s other features that have got me hooked. Now, I
have not played with my yahoo account for ages, so I am not sure how new
these features are and whether they are added in to compete with google.
But they are good, at least to my needs, and google does not have them
yet. So what are they?

First of all, I can get POP access with yahoo. When I first joined yahoo
when they bought geocities, POP access was standard. Then they took it
off all us cheapstakes, and kept it only for their paying customers
(fair enough I suppose). Then I discovered YahooPOPs, a program that
runs as a daemon or service and acts as a type of POP-server itself
which downloads the messages from the web and serves them to the email
client. I just got that working nicely and then I checked Yahoo and if
you sign up for Yahoo Delivers and agree to accept some of their junk
mail (once or more a week, and related to subjects that you choose) then
you can have either POP access or mail forwarding. So I did.

Secondly, and perhaps more importantly is “Address Guard”. This is
basically a system whereby you can create unlimited numbers of
“disposable email addresses”. These are to be used for signing up for
special offers, newsgroups, mailing lists etc, or any number of things
where you don’t necessarily trust the holder of your email address or
are worried about who can see it publically. Your mail can then be
filtered by the address, and if you start getting spam to it, you (a)
know who to blame and (b) can delete the address and never see it again!

So besides the geek cool value, I don’t know how much use my gmail
account is going to get. But at least I have managed to get an account
with no numbers or extra long words in the user name (see here for more details). And knowing google, it won’t be long until the feature list improves.

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