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Submitted by grahamrhind on 2010/01/17 05:26

For me IQ would be a great deal more useful if it were browser independence. I.e. it were able to web clip from ANY browser and not just IE and FF. Zoot 6 manages this, probably by parsing the web page through the IE or FF viewer, so it is possible.

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Hi Graham,

Have you tried the universal clipper ? Win-C is the default shortcut. It works with anything that supports CTRL-C. See 1. Clipping Content from other Apps for details.

If you've read this and it does not do what you want, can you explain in more details what you'd like ?

>If you've read this and it does not do what you want, can you explain in more details what you'd like ?

Greetings Pierre

Just began working with the universal clipper and expect to use it a lot. A question and a couple of suggestions for it.

Lacking a Windows key, I reassigned the function to one-hand hotkeys Alt-K and Alt-L. First use, the Add Item window popped up within the browser. Since then, it's been coming up with the full InfoQube window behind it. Any way to assure the Add Item remains a true pop-up that leaves the active application in view?

The window itself would benefit from these improvements:

A "Keep on Top" checkbox.
The option for a more vertical orientation. Ideally a liquid layout and drag-to toolbar, as the floating menus have. If that's not practicable, perhaps a fixed second layout when the user narrows the window: the Add Item, Close, and HTML buttons would wrap beneath the existing controls.

Thanks for considering.

Jerome

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The window itself would benefit from these improvements:

A "Keep on Top" checkbox.
The option for a more vertical orientation. Ideally a liquid layout and drag-to toolbar, as the floating menus have. If that's not practicable, perhaps a fixed second layout when the user narrows the window: the Add Item, Close, and HTML buttons would wrap beneath the existing controls.

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I agree with these.

Note that there's a work around for the first issue : if you minimise the main IQ window, it'll not appear when you press win-c. I do that all the time.

Thanks Pierre, I hadn't got that far in the manual. But it seems to me that that only copies and pastes text - no images, no formatting, no layout. The internal browser clippers maintain format/images and layouts and put those into the HTML pane rather than as item text.

Edit: In IE Win-C clips with text, images and formatting. In Opera it only clips as above, so it is also browser dependent.

I'm used to having to leave my preferred browser (Opera) and to open IE to clip for other programs, notably OneNote, but it's not an ideal way of working. As I mentioned, Zoot 6 clips (perfectly) from Opera, and I think (just guessing!) that it does this by noting the URL, opening this (invisibly) in its embedded IE view and clipping it from there. I know how resourceful you are, so I hoped you'd be able to do something similar....

Opera only allows copying of plain text. (For better security I believe)

FWIW, when I was using Surfulater for web clippings, someone in their forums showed me how to add "open [current page] in FF [or IE]" to the context menu.

(I can dig it out if anyone is interested)

That's the first programme I've heard of that can do clippings from Opera (- I presume it only does full pages?)

Yup, Opera is nice but it's a weird beast... Here Win-C works perfectly everywhere... Except opera.