Eli Grey

Noteboard tweaks and Safari support

By Eli Grey Comment

I am happy to say that Noteboard now supports Firefox 3+ AND Safari. It doesn’t support the current release of Safari so you have to use the Safari 3.1.2 nightlies as those builds include localStorage. Technically, I should be also be able to make Noteboard work with IE 8 beta 2 due to it also supporting localStorage, but I don’t want to waste my time making fixes for IE.

Now on to the tweaks for version 2.0.1:

  • Documents can now have custom titles instead of having the document name be the title.
  • The title quickly changes to “Noteboard” and changes back when you push Ctrl + D to bookmark Noteboard.
  • I stopped using uneval function built-into Firefox and took part of the JSON.stringify function from json.org’s JavaScript JSON script.
  • I added and changed these keyboard shortcuts:
    • Import is now Ctrl + Alt + 1
    • Export is now Ctrl + Alt + 2
    • To change the current document’s title, push Ctrl + Alt + T
  • Starting the open a document prompt (Ctrl + Alt + O), clicking OK, and leaving it blank opens up the shortcuts page.
  • The shortcuts page is no longer stored on your localStorage and is now a protected static document that can’t be edited/deleted.
  • A lot of code tidying up.
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Noteboard 2.0

By Eli Grey Comment

I have almost completely re-wrote Noteboard from the scratch and made Noteboard 2.0 because I felt that Noteboard 1.0.1 was not that extensible. There are a TON of changes in Noteboard 2.0, most notibly, multiple-document support. Just the same as the original Noteboard, it’s Firefox 3+ (and maby 2+) only. The reason there are only keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) to control Noteboard is so there are no other elements other than a single text box. The stats bar has been disabled by default and can be toggled on by pushing Alt + Ctrl + I. All of the keyboard shortcuts are on the first document, ‘shortcuts’. I don’t reccomend deleting this document until you get used to using Noteboard.

With multiple document support, you can now create as many documents as you like. To create a document, push either Alt + Shift + N or Alt + Shift + C and type in the name of the document. To open a document you can push either Ctrl + Alt + O or Alt + Shift + O. To delete a document, you push Alt + Shift + D. To rename the current document you’re viewing, push Alt + Shift + R. All documents (and document names) have full Unicode support so you may name them whatever you want to and put whatever you want in them.

Another cool feature introduced in Noteboard 2.0 is document autoload URLs. (more…)

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Noteboard 1.0.1 update

By Eli Grey Comment

I have recently updated Noteboard. This update includes various improvements. You can visit Noteboard through noteboard.eligrey.com and noteboard.nfshost.com.

  • Instead of using Mozilla’s non-standard storage interface, I changed the code to use the standard WhatWG Storage Interface. Using this interface lets Firefox 3.1+ manage the data set by going to Options -> Advanced -> Network -> Offline Storage.
  • Ctrl+S now saves the text. I recommend you do Ctrl+Alt+S to not trigger the “Save As” dialog box. I accidentally used to push Ctrl+S all the time forgetting that it will autosave when I close the window and it couldn’t save in mid-edit. I can’t override the default Save As dialog box without having access privlaged scripts which are only for addons, ect.
  • Alt+Ctrl+D deletes all the data stored by Noteboard on the domain it is currently on. Think of it as clearing your cookies if Noteboard actually set cookies. This is mostly needed as an alternative to using Firefox 3’s buggy offline storage management that doesn’t work most of the time.
  • When you Ctrl+V paste, the text is autosaved.
  • Will work on any browser that supports localStorage or globalStorage and will temporary store the data for browsers that only support sessionStorage

Update: I never mentioned this but the last version of Noteboard had a tiny update that never got a blog post about it because of the update being so small. The update allowed it to be served in data URIs opened through links or in iframes due to most browsers allowing data URIs to inherit the domain of the referrer. This means you can serve Noteboard 1.0.1 in data URIs now.

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Noteboard

By Eli Grey Comment

I made a simple notepad called Noteboard out of my necessity to make notes while browsing the web but not wanting to have to open up a seprate application to put the notes down and not wanting to store them on an external server. It is called Noteboard because it’s main use for most people would to a notepad to store text off of your clipboard. My solution was to make a webapp that uses the JavaScript globalStorage object to locally store what is typed into the text box. It also supports the tab key. To make it even more secure from someone (aka. me) from reading what you have locally stored for Notepad I have put this webapp on it’s own subdomain so I can’t use globalStorage on the main site to find out what you are typing on Noteboard. Noteboard currently only works for Firefox 3 and up.

Noteboard – noteboard.eligrey.com

Alternate Noteboard – noteboard.nfshost.com (this one uses the domain, nfshost.com, so there is NO possibility of me reading your notes.)

Embedded Edition – Everything in one file.

You may host Noteboard on your site as long as you keep the CC license in it.

I may also get a new domain just for noteboard if I can find one that isn’t already registered. (maby something like noteboard.it)

Bookmarklet to launch a Notepad popup: Noteboard (drag to bookmarks)

Update: I also added a status bar that displays the word stats and Noteboard doesn’t use the browser statusbar anymore because most people have JavaScript changing status bar text disabled.

Example:

<tab>Hello world! My name is Elijah Grey.
I am 123 years old. My website is www.eligrey.com

Returns these stats: Lines: 2; Words: 15; Characters: 87; Spaces: 14; Numbers: 3; Tabs: 1; Total Whitespace: 16

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