The MailTo command can do more than enter a single e-mail address in the “Send To” field while activating your e-mail program. It can also:

Notes:

” “ (beginning and ending double quotes) are necessary if any spaces are used Mailto parameter should be preceded by “?” for the first or only parameter and “&” for second and subsequent parameter.

Some examples, with actual HTML Code included, follow:

Simple MailTo

• <a href=”mailto:astark1@unl.edu”>MailTo with Multiple Recipients
• <a href=”mailto:astark1@unl.edu,ASTARK1@UNL.EDU“>MailTo with Subject
• <a href=”mailto:astark1@unl.edu?subject=Comments from MailTo Syntax Page“>

  MailTo with a Copy

• <a href=”mailto:astark1@unl.edu?cc=ASTARK1@UNL.EDU“>MailTo with a Blind Copy
• <a href=”mailto:astark1@unl.edu?bcc=ASTARK1@UNL.EDU“>MailTo with message already started in Body
• <a href=”mailto:astark1@unl.edu?body=I am having trouble finding information on “>MailTo with multiline message in Body
• <a href=”mailto:astark1@unl.edu?body=The message’s first paragraph.%0A%0aSecond paragraph.%0A%0AThird Paragraph.“>NOTE: Use “%0A” for a new line, use “%0A%0A” for a new line preceded by a blank line.

Features may be used in combination

• MailTo with Subject, a Recipient, a Copy and a Blind Copy
• <a href=”mailto:astark1@unl.edu?subject=MailTo Comments&cc=ASTARK1@UNL.EDU&bcc=id@internet.node”>

Remember to use only one ? (question mark), when providing multiple entries beyond e-mail address

Download Farbtastic 1.2 – 8 January 2007 (License: GPL).

Farbtastic: jQuery color picker plug-in | Steven Wittens – Acko.net

Growing Pains: Can Web 2.0 Evolve Into An Enterprise Technology? — Web 2.0 — InformationWeek

Wikis, mashups, social networking, and even Second Life can have a place in business, but they need to improve legacy interoperability–and IT needs to overcome its skepticism.

Anyway, when we upgrade WordPressMU to the next version, we’ll likely need to ‘fix’ this again, so here’s $98 bucks worth of direction:

Changeset 1022 – WordPress MU Trac – Trac

Just change this:

$allowedposttags = array(
‘address’ => array(),
‘a’ => array(
‘href’ => array(), ‘title’ => array(),
‘rel’ => array(), ‘rev’ => array(),
‘name’ => array()
),

to this:

$allowedposttags = array(
‘address’ => array(),
‘a’ => array(
‘href’ => array(), ‘title’ => array(),
‘rel’ => array(), ‘rev’ => array(),
‘name’ => array(), ‘target’ => array()
),

NOTE: This change was downgraded to determine if it inexplicably affects bandwidth performance.

Anyway, when we upgrade WordPressMU to the next version, we’ll likely need to ‘fix’ this again, so here’s $98 bucks worth of direction:

Changeset 1022 – WordPress MU Trac – Trac

Just change this:

$allowedposttags = array(
‘address’ => array(),
‘a’ => array(
‘href’ => array(), ‘title’ => array(),
‘rel’ => array(), ‘rev’ => array(),
‘name’ => array()
),

to this:

$allowedposttags = array(
‘address’ => array(),
‘a’ => array(
‘href’ => array(), ‘title’ => array(),
‘rel’ => array(), ‘rev’ => array(),
‘name’ => array(), ‘target’ => array()
),

NOTE: This change was downgraded to determine if it inexplicably affects bandwidth performance.

A-Grade Browser Support is probably what we should adopt, as well.

TinyMCE:Installation – Moxiecode Documentation Wiki

This is the Text Editor available for WordPress posting (Visual Edit mode). Pretty neat. Perhaps we’ll add a few items…

Here’re some more interesting TinyMCE links:

• WordPress TinyMCE page
• TinyMCE:Plugins/spellchecker
• Advanced TinyMCE Editor
• TinyMCE Advanced
• Tiny MCE Buttons
• TinyMCE: Configuration/valid elements

Perhaps, if I can ever find some time, I’ll be able to play around with this stuff.

I believe that if we could arrange to have each of Freedom’s 7000 employees use as their browsers’ default, local news resource, the web search tool, it would have an impact on Freedom revenue. At the very least, we may want to consider making this one of the steps in setting up new workstations.

By following the directions on the following page, we can use the OCRegister.com Google ‘web’ search results page our default for searches from the IE7 search bar:

• Add Search Providers to Internet Explorer 7

There are also instructions available to add them to the Mozilla Search Bar here:

• Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox

Technorati’s OSD fileThat page has instructions indicating how to add a search engine plugin to your browser, and ‘advertise’ how to do it to the web browser, so our visitors & staff can add them to their browsers as well. Very Nifty!

Reference Material

• OpenSearch Documentation, OpenSearch Documentation about the Url and Param element
• Technorati.com has a working osd.xml
• More on Autodiscovery difficulties at bugzilla bug 340208
• data: URI scheme
• searchplugins.net – create OpenSearch plugins for use with Firefox 2. List of generated search plugins
• Ready2Search – create OpenSearch plugins. Customized Search through Ready2Search

Sample OSD Code

Add this to your page’s <head /> section:

<link
  rel="search"
  type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://OSD_DOMAIN_NAME/osdwebsearch.xml"
  title="OSD_SITE_TITLE - Web Search"
/>
<link
  rel="search"
  type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"
  href="http://OSD_DOMAIN_NAME/osdsitesearch.xml"
  title="OSD_SITE_TITLE - Site Search"
/>

Add the following two files to /web/onset/sites/[yoursitecode]/web/ (NOTE: Replace JDNews.com-ish stuff with relevant text!):

osdwebsearch.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
  <ShortName>OSD_TITLE - Web Search</ShortName>
  <Description>OSD_WEB_SEARCH_DESCRIPTION</Description>
  <Contact>OSD_EMAIL</Contact>
  <Url type="text/html"
       method="get"
       template="http://OSD_DOMAIN_NAME/OSD_PATH_TO_SEARCH_RESULTS/?q={searchTerms}&amp;fistype=web&amp;sourceid=opensearch">
  </Url>
  <LongName>OSD_WEB_LONG_TITLE - Web Search</LongName>

  <Image
       height="16"
       width="16"
       type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">

http://OSD_FAVICON_PATH/favicon.ico

  </Image>
  <Attribution>
       OSD_COPYRIGHT_TEXT
  </Attribution>

  <AdultContent>false</AdultContent>
  <Language>en-us</Language>
  <OutputEncoding>UTF-8</OutputEncoding>
  <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
</OpenSearchDescription>

osdsitesearch.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
  <ShortName>OSD_SITE_TITLE - Site Search</ShortName>
  <Description>OSD_SITE_SEARCH_DESCRIPTION</Description>
  <Contact>OSD_EMAIL</Contact>
  <Url type="text/html"
       method="get"
       template="http://OSD_DOMAIN_NAME/OSD_PATH_TO_SEARCH_RESULTS/?q={searchTerms}&amp;fistype=web&amp;sourceid=opensearch">
  </Url>
  <LongName>OSD_SITE_LONG_TITLE - Site Search</LongName>

  <Image
       height="16"
       width="16"
       type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">

http://OSD_FAVICON_PATH/favicon.ico

  </Image>
  <Attribution>
       OSD_COPYRIGHT_TEXT
  </Attribution>

  <AdultContent>false</AdultContent>
  <Language>en-us</Language>
  <OutputEncoding>UTF-8</OutputEncoding>
  <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
</OpenSearchDescription>

Functioning OSD Code (JDNews.com)

Add this to your page’s <head /> section:


<link
rel="search"
type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://www.jdnews.com/osdwebsearch.xml"
title="JDNews.com - Web Search"
/>
<link
rel="search"
type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"
href="http://www.jdnews.com/osdsitesearch.xml"
title="JDNews.com - Site Search"
/>


Add the following two files to /web/onset/sites/[yoursitecode]/web/ (NOTE: Replace JDNews.com-ish stuff with relevant text!):

osdwebsearch.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
  <ShortName>JDNews.com - Web Search</ShortName>
  <Description>Search Eastern NC's premiere Information Source.
       Covering Jacksonville.</Description>
  <Contact>support@freedom.com</Contact>
  <Url type="text/html"
       method="get"
       template="http://www.jdnews.com/search/?q={searchTerms}&amp;fistype=web&amp;sourceid=opensearch">
  </Url>
  <LongName>JDNews.com - Jacksonville Daily News - Web Search</LongName>

  <Image
       height="16"
       width="16"
       type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">

http://www.jdnews.com/favicon.ico

  </Image>
  <Attribution>
       Copyright © 2007 Freedom ENC Communication, Inc.
       All Rights Reserved. Content may not be reproduced without
       written permission from FENC Communications.
  </Attribution>

  <AdultContent>false</AdultContent>
  <Language>en-us</Language>
  <OutputEncoding>UTF-8</OutputEncoding>
  <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
</OpenSearchDescription>

osdsitesearch.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
  <ShortName>JDNews.com - Site Search</ShortName>
  <Description>Search Eastern NC's premiere Information Source.
       Covering Jacksonville.</Description>
  <Contact>support@freedom.com</Contact>
  <Url type="text/html"
       method="get"
       template="http://www.jdnews.com/search/?q={searchTerms}&amp;fistype=site&amp;sourceid=opensearch">
  </Url>
  <LongName>JDNews.com - Jacksonville Daily News - Site Search</LongName>

  <Image
       height="16"
       width="16"
       type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">

http://www.jdnews.com/favicon.ico

  </Image>
  <Attribution>
       Copyright © 2007 Freedom ENC Communication, Inc.
       All Rights Reserved. Content may not be reproduced without
       written permission from FENC Communications.
  </Attribution>

  <AdultContent>false</AdultContent>
  <Language>en-us</Language>
  <OutputEncoding>UTF-8</OutputEncoding>
  <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
</OpenSearchDescription>

That’s all! Wanna check it out?

1. Launch Mozilla Firefox (tip? MSIE7 also supports OpenSearch)
2. Go to JDNews.com
3. Click on the down arrow in the ‘Search bar’ (the box/field adjacent to the Location/Address bar, not the Freedom Google bar in the web site)

   JDNews.com – Web Search

   Does a ‘Web’ search using JDNews.com’s Web Search – just like searching in the JDNews.com’s Google Bar with the (o) Web radio button checked

   JDNews.com – Site Search

   Does a ‘Site’ search of JDNews.com articles using JDNews.com’s Web Search – just like searching in the JDNews.com’s Google Bar with the (o) Site radio button checked

4. You can add the JDNews.com search engine to your browser’s search bar tool by selecting ‘Add JDNews.com – Web Search’ (or ‘Site Search’)

I suspect it’d be in Freedom’s best interest to only provide [My-Domain].com – Web Search to our customers, to limit confusion. We may also want to modify the search results for searches coming from this box (e.g., to [Gasp!] remove or somehow adjust the sponsored results at the top–within contract of course!).

Prop-Clear: CSS min-height hack

In a nutshell, add this to your CSS style sheet:

.clear { clear:both; height:1px; overflow:hidden; }

… and add <div class="clear"></div> to your HTML:


<div class="contentinnerwrapper">
<?php echo $content_for_layout; ?>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>