this favelet rules.

Posted 2003-03-27 @ 01:34:21

[Update: this works as advertised, but you'll probably want to check out the revised version.]

By far the most complicated favelet I've attempted, this one fails in MacIE, but works fine in Camino/Chimera & Mozilla, so it'll presumably be okay in other Gecko-based browsers.

Also, I was surprised to find that recent Safari builds handle it properly, even though it's necessary to manually paste the HREF's value into a bookmark. (Dragging the link to the toolbar crashes my copies of the app, anyway).

It shows the mouse's current position in the browser window, and allows you to measure distances via a draggable marquee:

You'll need to drag from upper-left to lower-right in order to get a marquee, and it'd be nice if the floater would swing around to the top/right when approaching the bottom/left of the window, but hey, at least I added Math.abs() to the width & height display, so you'll still get a positive measurement either way.