The basics: It would be FREAKIN awesome if there were a way to configure my mac to open a Basecamp url in my basecamp Fluid app.
The context: Outside of the normal web browsing or fluid app context, people open links from many different sources. People use different streams / workflows to keep abreast of content, ESPECIALLY from sites that they frequent (hence, sites that more likely candidates to have been assigned a dedicated SSB). Link clicks can potentially come from everywhere on an operating system these days: email applications, rss feed reader, dasboard or yahoo widgets, embeded in pdfs, word docs, excel. The problem: Mac OS X can handle only ONE application for sending clicked urls (specified by setting your default browser in Safari Preferences). Up till now, people generally specified a real browser not a targeted SSB. This sucks and heres my use case: My default browser is Firefox, and I click a link in my Avalanch yahoo widget (a widget for Basecamp time tracking). Mac OS opens the link in Firefox, where I'm NOT logged in to Basecamp so the url gets forwarded to the login page. I've already got my Basecamp Fluid app open, but cant effectively get to that link without also logging in in Firefox first. Baaaad for productivity. One hack that works sometimes is to realize beforehand that you want to open a link in a Fluid ssb and right click to copy the link location, switch to or launch the ssb, create a new tab and paste the url. also Baaaad for productivity. Furthermore, this cannot be done all the time, as is the case often with widgets where you get no context menu to copy the url. The ideal solution: What if there was a way to setup a default lightweight handler that was aware of ALL the web browsers and SSBs on a system and could route to a specific ssb if the url matches a specific pattern or to your default browser if no match was found. I guess first i should ask has anyone ever felt this pain, and secondly is there an existing solution to this daily problem!?!! Not sure where the best place would be to put a handler like this might be: built in to the Fluid.app itself? Add-on for Firefox? Apple Script? or Mac OS plugin. A proposal: One idea might be to create a handler in Fluid.app that is aware of all the other Fluid instances and their url patterns. Would have to provide an interface to re-order or disable the SSBs, in order to accomodate variance in the existing flexibility with the url patterns (maybe some have more leniant url rules than others). Also would need to be able to define Any system app as the default browser. Then in safari make Fluid.app the default web browser. Anyone have any input? this is an UBER feature i'd love to see implemented :) I love and depend on Fluid instances on a daily basis. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "fluidapp" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fluidapp?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
