Better Find
 

Hello there!

I was looking for something on a very colorful page, and it was hard to see the highlighted text on the found word.

I was wondering about an optional feature where the highlighted text might pulse(not strobe!) for a few seconds, or cycle through several colors, or something that would make it easier to see what you are looking for.

SC

I totally agree.
It's not just the "old fashioned way" to use a separate popup window.
It does not even need to be a colorful page. Some of my favorite sites use blue links, almost the same blue Omniweb uses to highlight the hits (I know - it uses the system's highlight color).
I like the way Safari 3.1 and FireFox 3 RC1 handles it.
A small bar docks below the favorites bookmarks (FireFox docks it above the status bar), fades out the whole screen a bit and highlights all words at a time. Safari also counts the number of found words.
I would love to see that in the future Omniweb Version!

I third this, its long overdue (I have requested this at least twice before)!

I agree.

Nothing has changed in the sneak preview of 5.1 :o((((
So once again I'll switch back to Safari as long as this is implemented.

[QUOTE=Smithcraft;37563]Hello there!

I was looking for something on a very colorful page, and it was hard to see the highlighted text on the found word.

I was wondering about an optional feature where the highlighted text might pulse(not strobe!) for a few seconds, or cycle through several colors, or something that would make it easier to see what you are looking for.

SC[/QUOTE]

Also, live incremental find triggered by the user simply starting to type is something I'd like to see in OW.

I don't remember where I've get this javascript, but I use it more often than command+F.
The highlighted text become yellow.

[CODE]javascript:(function(){var%20count=0,%20text,%20dv;text=prompt(%22Search%20phrase:%22,%20%22%22);if(text==null%20||%20text.length==0)return;dv=document.defaultView;function%20searchWithinNode(node,%20te,%20len){var%20pos,%20skip,%20spannode,%20middlebit,%20endbit,%20middleclone;skip=0;if(%20node.nodeType==3%20){pos=node.data.toUpperCase().indexOf(te);if(pos%3E=0){spannode=document.createElement(%22SPAN%22);spannode.style.backgroundColor=%22yellow%22;middlebit=node.splitText(pos);endbit=middlebit.splitText(len);middleclone=middlebit.cloneNode(true);spannode.appendChild(middleclone);middlebit.parentNode.replaceChild(spannode,middlebit);++count;skip=1;}}else%20if(%20node.nodeType==1&&%20node.childNodes%20&&%20node.tagName.toUpperCase()!=%22SCRIPT%22%20&&%20node.tagName.toUpperCase!=%22STYLE%22){for%20(var%20child=0;%20child%20%3C%20node.childNodes.length;%20++child){child=child+searchWithinNode(node.childNodes[child],%20te,%20len);}}return%20skip;}window.status=%22Searching%20for%20'%22+text+%22'...%22;searchWithinNode(document.body,%20text.toUpperCase(),%20text.length);window.status=%22Found%20%22+count+%22%20occurrence%22+(count==1?%22%22:%22s%22)+%22%20of%20'%22+text+%22'.%22;})();[/CODE]

Still works with SP

How to bind this script to ctrl+f?

You have to bookmark it in your favorite bar.
Create any bookmark and change the url with this code within the bookmarks window.

[U]edit: [/U]
the page of javascripts I was searching is here:
[URL="http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/extras/"]http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/extras/[/URL]

Thanks - this helps a little bit - although I cannot continue searching with ctrl+g.
This issue interrupts my workflow :-(