Drag and drop import of PubMed references from your browser

tom · Post by **tom** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:59 pm

Hi Jon,

I tried this new feature(BE 9.0.3) but it doesn't work as expected...the only thing I get imported is the URL into the URL field. And importing to static group by dropping does not work neither. I'm using OSX 10.4.5. A bug or it's my machine or me?

tom

Post by **Jon** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:04 pm

Did you drag the proxy icon? If so, please contact me directly more more details (e.g the browser you used, the search you did, etc.).

Jon
Sonny Software

Post by **Jon** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:36 pm

Hi Tom,

You're using Firefox -- I just tested it, and the drag it creates is useless (the url is not included in it).

I've tested the drag and drop with Safari and MIE, and it works with them, so please try one of those and see if it works for you, too. I'll add a note that Firefox drags won't work.

Jon
Sonny Software

tom · Post by **tom** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:45 pm

Jon wrote: I've tested the drag and drop with Safari and MIE, and it works with them, so please try one of those and see if it works for you, too.

yes with Safari it works...to bad that I prefer firefox...
tom

Post by **Jon** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:49 pm

Please realize that this is a limitation in Firefox, not Bookends. Firefox drags seem to contain only the rectangle settings of the drag, which is pretty useless. If the information to the link isn't there, there is nothing Bookends can do.

This sounds like a suggestion to make to the Firefox team, no?

Jon
Sonny Software

tom · Post by **tom** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:12 pm

Jon wrote:Please realize that this is a limitation in Firefox, not Bookends.
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This sounds like a suggestion to make to the Firefox team, no?

yep, I'll do that (and hopefully other firefox users as well:-)

tom

tom · Post by **tom** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:50 am

Jon wrote:Please realize that this is a limitation in Firefox, not Bookends. Firefox drags seem to contain only the rectangle settings of the drag, which is pretty useless. If the information to the link isn't there, there is nothing Bookends can do.

again me and sorry that this is more a Firefox issue...what I don't understand is that when I drag and drop a proxy from Firefox or Safari to a text editor I get the same, a copy of the URL...so both seem to work the same way with a text editor. I will make a suggestion (or looking for an extension) to the Firefox team but I don't know what I have to ask for? I do not know what "rectangle settings" means; as far I can see the URL is there?

tom

Post by **Jon** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:42 am

Download and use DragPeeker to see what is actually in the drag item. It contains the "item bounds" (i.e. the rectangle) but no text. What Bookends is looking for is a field labeled "url ", which as the http link. Hm, if you drag and drop on the Finder, the resulting file does contain that info. Perhaps there is a way to coerce it from Firefox directly, but at the moment I don't see how.

FYI, I have now checked OmniWeb and Opera. Both include the correct url information in the drag. So Firefox is the outlier.

Jon
Sonny Software