I just tried opera. Wow! It's a great browser on the xo.<br><br>It has tabbed browsing, bookmarks with optional shortcut keys and solves the image save and upload problem by saving images to /home/olpc. Files are saved with their original file name and when I upload to blogger, opera looks in /home/olpc so it just works.
<br><br>It does appear that the opera rendering engine doesn't like (read 'ignores') the css tag style="float:left" but other than that its great!<br><br>Thanks for suggesting opera!<br>Paul<br><br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Russell</b> <<a href="mailto:russelldad@gmail.com">russelldad@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
Both Opera and wget are great ideas. I'll give both a try now. Thanks!<br><br>Is there an easy way to get an image URL out of a web page?<br><br>If I were to use wget I'd need to know the URL for the image. Often images are in a webpage and I'd do a view image or save as in firefox. The only way I can figure out how to get a URL for an image using browers is to CTRL-u and sift through the source.
<div><span class="e" id="q_116ff4c43a09b93c_1"><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 21, 2007 4:24 PM, Michael Stone <<a href="mailto:michael@laptop.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
michael@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.80ex; padding-left: 1ex">
An alternate approach is to use the tool 'wget' to download your image<br>in the terminal, e.g.:<br><br> wget -O my.jpg <a href="http://some.where/some.jpg" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://some.where/some.jpg</a><br> wget <a href="http://some.other/file.jpg" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://some.other/file.jpg</a><br><br>would produce 'my.jpg' and '
file.jpg' in the current directory.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Michael<br></font><div><div><br><br>On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 08:31:36PM +0000, phigan wrote:<br>><br>><br>> russelldad at <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>> > Is there a way to save an image from a web page onto the XO hard drive, and then get the path to that image so that I can upload it? <br>><br>><br>> You may be able to enter the direct URL of the image you want to save, but I have not attempted this with the Browse activity.
<br>><br>> Opera (<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Opera" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Opera</a>) is what I've been using, and it seems to work pretty well! You have to install it and run it in Terminal. Things you need to know:
<br>><br>> Opera-activity on that page doesn't work right now. <br>> When you download something in the Browse activity, it goes into the Journal and in /home/olpc/.sugar/default/datastore/store as a funky filename. Match up the date and filesize, 'cp' it to your /home/olpc directory, and then erase it from the Journal.
<br>> To install an rpm, do this as root: rpm -vi <filename><br>> To run opera after it's installed: opera &<br>><br>> It gives you a right-click menu and will let you save images.<br>><br>> - Joe
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