Saturday 31 August 2013

Making your browser a notepad


Using HTML5 , you can turn your browser into a notepad by just writing a single line of code in your browser url textbox. Type in data:text/html, <html contenteditable> & your browser will turn into a simple notepad.



What things you can do with this browser notepad : 
  • You can save text using CTRL + S 
  • You can print your text right from your browser
  • You can increase text size by pressing CTRL + mouse scroll
It have limited functionality , but still can be used sometimes.






















One more functionality we can use chome notepad is saving any content from web into pdf format.
You can pick (copy) content from other sites & place (paste) on this notepad.


























Now press CTRL + P , chrome will open print preview for the page. Change output type from printer to PDF , now you can save the page as PDF.





















This can be useful & pretty easy too when you are trying to create some documents on the go.