OW 4.1 - Address field on Toolbar

Søren Theilgaard theilgaard at theilgaard.dk
Wed Feb 20 01:50:59 PST 2002


On Wednesday, February 20, 2002, at 10:28 AM, Eugene Lee wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:10:54AM -0500, Gerry Singh wrote:
> :
> : This is a feature request:
> :
> : When you move the mouse pointer over a link in OmniWeb, the address 
> that
> : the link refers to shows up in the Address field on the toolbar.
> : Unfortunately, most addresses are too long to fit within the field so 
> it's
> : often very, very difficult to see exactly where the link goes before
> : clicking on it.
>
> I'd rather have this appear in some contextual menu.  Control-click a
> link, the menu pops up, select "Show link", which cascades into another
> pop-up menu revealing the entire link.

What about a pop-up text box like in Finder when a file name is too long 
to fit in a row, then I can hold down the option (alt) key, and see the 
complete file name in a yellow text box. Would be logic if the option 
key over a link in OW gives this kind of text box with the link in.

-- Søren




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