<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Here’s a nifty extension, you drag your mouse across the page and it gives you the pixel width of your selection. It’s called <A href="http://www.kevinfreitas.net/extensions/measureit/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#B7585A">MeasureIt</FONT></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">. It still needs a couple of tweaks:</SPAN><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><B>Known Issues (in order of importance)</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> Jittery artifacts when moving ruler box (Fx 1.5)</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> MeasureIt does not override general div styles that may be set on webpages (e.g. <A href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org">http://shootout.alioth.debian.org</A>)</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> when page refreshes, ruler closes yet value still set to “on”</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> no scrolling individual frames in frameset</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> flash objects disappear when MeasureIt is activated</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> But otherwise could be a handy little app…Thanks to Michael Dutton of IS&T’s </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://web.mit.edu/ist/usability/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#B7585A">Usability Lab</FONT></A> for this post idea! To comment on this post, visit <A href="http://webpub.mit.edu/?p=41">http://webpub.mit.edu/?p=41</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">See you around the 'net</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; ">Lisa</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><BR></SPAN><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Lisa C. Mayer</DIV><DIV>Web and Database Consultant, DCAD</DIV><DIV>Information Services and Technology (IS&T)</DIV><DIV>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DIV><DIV>Room N42-240C</DIV><DIV>Cambridge, MA 02139</DIV><DIV>617-452-4225</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:lmayer@mit.edu">lmayer@mit.edu</A></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>