Hi Jerry,

One of the things I've appreciated about IE for windows is that you can  
not only send the link of a page in an E-mail, but you can also send  
the whole page, graphics, copy and everything.

Can you do this with any of the browsers that work with Mac OS X?

TIA,
Jane


On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 07:37 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote:

> This tip comes from the folks at MacFixIt.com
>
> Here is a way to add a "mail button" to Safari that will work with  
> your default mail browser.
>
> 1) Start Safari.
> 2) Select and copy the following line of code (it needs to be one  
> line):
>
> javascript:location.href='mailto:?SUBJECT='+document.title+'&BODY='+esc 
> ape(location.href)
>
> 3) paste that line into the url address box. You will notice a little  
> blue icon appear in front of what you just pasted.
> 4) Use the mouse to grab the icon and drag it down to the bookmark  
> bar. You will be asked to give it a name, call it something  
> imaginative like, oh, say MailTo. Press return and the bookmark will  
> now appear as MailTo in the bookmark bar.
>
> Now when you have a page open and click on the MailTo bookmark, your  
> default Mail application will open and a message will be ready to go  
> with the site's page title pre-filled in as the message's subject. The  
> body of the message will contain the url of that web-site for you.
>
> Neat trick. Ahh, the power of JavaScript.
>
>                       Jerry
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