Extending Safari 3: Stand / journal / hicksdesign

29/07/04

Extending Safari 3: Stand

I’ve recently discovered another plug-in for Safari, called Stand. I can’t tell you a whole lot of detail about it, as the site is written in Japanese. What I can tell you is that its free, and it allows you to do the following slick actions:

Allow syntax colouring in viewed source (no control over colours used though)
Specify a font and size for viewed source (I like this – I have a thing about using Lucida Grande for source view).
Search your bookmarks and history (very nice, although I tend to use Quicksilver to find bookmarks quickly, this is even faster).
Specify that all links to a ’_blank’ target open in a new tab instead of a new window. This is nice.
Save tab layouts as workspaces alÃ¡ Omniweb.
Assign categories, colour labels and comments to new bookmarks
Create search shortcuts (as in Sogudi and Saft)
‘Site Alteration’. This allows you some basic preferences on a per site basis, such as what encoding to use, and whether images, pop-ups, plug-ins or javascript are to be allowed.
Remove favicons.
Set a time delay for auto-closing the downloads window after completion.
It also seems to add ‘Copy Link HTML Tag’ command to the context menu when ctrl-clicking links. (I’ve only just noticed this though, so it could’ve been there all along!)

This is a beta, so although I could save windows as workspaces, I couldn’t find a way of reopening them. There is also a window called the ‘Stand Bar’, which includes searchable bookmarks and history again, plus 2 other menus which haven’t been ‘hooked up’ yet.

Having said all that, it appears to be very stable, and chuffed with my lovely new source view. Its another worthwhile addition to make Safari the browser it should be.

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Nell said 1387 days ago:

It looks great! But how did you install it?

Jon Hicks said 1387 days ago:

Sorry – should’ve mentioned that.

Quit Safari, then place the ‘Stand’ folder inside Macintosh HD>Library>InputManagers>. It will load when you restart Safari – look out for the ‘Stand’ menu at the top…

Scott said 1387 days ago:

Just another reason that makes me want to switch…

sighs

Scott Boms said 1387 days ago:

Very cool. From the bits of English that show through on the site, it looks like there’s some good info there too. We definitely need a translator!

Philippe said 1387 days ago:

Machine translation according to BabelFish. Your description is pretty good. The important stuff is at the bottom. Now I’m off to install it.

Philippe said 1387 days ago:

Update – reading the ReadMe file, it appears that you can customize the source code colours via Terminal.app. Cool, I finallly can read source code in Safari. Handy for debugging. Scroll down towards the bottom.

The stuff about the Yen mark is probably targetted at users of Japanese keyboards, where the Yen character replaces the backslash (escape character in many programming languages).

kyle said 1386 days ago:

Is this an OX 10.3 only add-on? I’m still running 10.2.8, and I can’t find an ‘InputManagers’ folder…

chuckers said 1386 days ago:

To Kyle:

The site says it is for Safari 1.2.2 (v125.8).
It will not run on Safari 1.1(v100.x) or Safari 1.0(v85.x).

Also, if you are using HetimaSafariHackEX,
you need to UNINSTALL (remove) it first before
using this application.

I am sort of SOL at the moment as I am still
on Safari 1.0.2 (v85.7) as well.

Nell said 1385 days ago:

Thanks Jon! it is very stable, I really like it.

By the way, Stand added the ‘Copy Link HTML Tag’ command, it was not there before.

I am running 10.3 and didn’t have an “InputManagers” folder either. I created it and installed Stand there. Nothing has exploded (yet).

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Stereo said 1385 days ago:

Wow, I’ve been dreaming of a hack that would cancel _blank or redirect it to new tabs; this is great!

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john said 1383 days ago:

hey! i just wanted to tell you that you have a great site : really. it’s great. and you have a mac?! me too. there are so few people with imacs. well, cool site :)

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emily. said 1382 days ago:

Thank you so much for linking to this! I think this is possibly the most useful thing I’ve installed on my computer besides QuickSilver.

I too join the ranks of people wishing for a human English translation so I make sure I’m using all the nifty features.

Note: look what it does to the pane when you make a new bookmark! No more impossibly long drop-down menu! Wheeee!

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sandro said 1382 days ago:

this looks cool and will have to give it a whirl… as for saving windows and tabs as worksets and re-opening them, i found an applescript that does just that; it’s called sfri SaveURLSet which comes as part of the free sfri Tools package located at:

http://homepage.mac.com/julifos/soft/sfritools/index.html

enjoy…

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Caspar231 said 1381 days ago:

This is fantastic. Just what I’ve always wanted—many thanks for spotting this.

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Nell said 1379 days ago:

Jon, did you notice Stand also adds a “Show Exif Info” command in the contextual menu? You’ll see it if you open an image in a new tab/window and ctrl+click on it? Or was it there all along?