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ruler by Ian Remmel

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  • by George and Kathleen Martinez, 7 years ago
    i wish it filled the empty space with the lines and the fractions and inches so i can use it to measure multiple areas at one time. Or if i needed to make a graph.
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  • by Firefox user 13720797, 7 years ago
    Sometimes its difficult to read the text on some backgrounds. When measuring, the click leaks to the page and you can end touching buttons you didnt want.

    Aside from that it works great. Superb extension, thanks!


    A veces es dificil leer el texto contra el fondo, y mientras estás midiendo el click de la medicion pasa de largo para el sitio así que se terminan tocando links o botones que cambian la pagina que se esta midiendo.

    Fuera de eso funciona perfecto.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Good feedback. I'm kinda surprised by the click-leaking issue, but I'll look into it. Have you noticed it on specific sites or do you find it generally reproducible everywhere?

    I've opened the following issues related to your post:

    https://github.com/ianwremmel/browser-ruler/issues/53
    https://github.com/ianwremmel/browser-ruler/issues/52
  • by Firefox user 13564102, 7 years ago
    Simples, sehr gelungenes Addon für Web Worker und Webmaster, die öfter mal Maß nehmen müssen. Danke.
  • by keredan_adrien, 8 years ago
    Working as expected !

    ps : A clipboard option would be great, with css format that including position and dimensions of the div, as this for example :
    left: px;
    top: px;
    width: px;
    height: px;

    Thanks for your job ;)

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Can you explain what you mean by a clipboard option? Do you mean you want it to copy the dimensions to the clipboard in the format you posted?
  • by nashe, 8 years ago
    Working now, I think it is because I tried only on WebExtensions page.

    While working on different elements, I would like to unselect all at some time. Maybe by pressing escape, right click or simple click (not dragging) can unselect the last selection.

    Old:
    It is not working for me in FireFox 55.0.3
    I get the Icon but clicking on the icon doesn't do anything at all.
    If there is a trick to use it, maybe it would be nicer if developer types a little more towards the description of the add-on like what it does and how.
    Pictures aren't a bad idea.

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    Hi nashe,

    I'll see about getting some screenshots and a better description out. When you click the button, it should darken the web page you're looking at. When you click on the page, the first click will start a box and the second will end it and you'll get the pixel dimensions of the covered area.

    I've seen a little bit of flakiness, but so far I can't reproduce. For example, I loaded facebook, clicked the button, and nothing happened. Then I went to Yahoo and it worked; back at Facebook again it started working.

    If it's nothing too private, can you share what site you were on when you clicked the button?

    Also note: According to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Your_first_WebExtension#Testing, this kind of extension is disabled on addons.mozilla.org, so if that's the only place you tried it, it won't do anything.
  • by RobertJ, 8 years ago
    This works fine on FF57a. Would be great if the output included the diagonal measurement in addition to width and height.

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    Good idea. I've added it at https://github.com/ianwremmel/browser-ruler/issues/22

    Just out of curiosity, what's your use-case? I've not come across that need myself (but then, I haven't been doing UI work for a while either).

    edit: just saw it's already opened as https://github.com/ianwremmel/browser-ruler/issues/21