Simbolic Software

Bradley IE Extensions

Download Bradley IE Extensions 2.4.1 [54.85 KB]

Description

The Bradley IE Extensions are a set of tools that enhance Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 4 or greater). When the Bradley IE Extensions are installed a new toolbar button and a new item in the context menu will appear when using Internet Explorer. The new context menu item is called 'Bradley IE Extensions...'. If you select the context menu on an element and select 'Bradley IE Extensions...' the menu drawn onto the current document. The menu contains information, actions and tools that are relevant to the selected item. Using the toolbar button is the same as selecting 'Bradley IE Extensions...' from the context menu belonging to the page.

Each type of element has different information that is displayed and different actions that can be selected. For example, selecting an image allows you to see dimensions of the image and allows you to zoom the image or open it in a new window. By selecting a piece of text you are able to change the font or perform a search for the phrase. Selecting the page allows you to expose the table structure or expose any forms or lookup the page on various other web site. The tools are being updated and added to with each new release. It is not currently possible to document all of the options but as you use the Bradley IE Extensions you will find all of the features.

Some of the tools found in the application include "Expose Forms", "Expose Tables", "Check Images", "Edit Page", "Google Search", "Google References", "Dictionary Check", "Thesaurus Check", "Word Count", "Highlight Word", "Highlight Selection", "Resize Window", "Picture Explorer", "Add to Favorites", "Zoom Page", "Zoom Item", "Open new Window", "Target Links", "Apply Style" ...

If you already have a previous verions of Bradley IE Extensions installed then please remove this first. Once you have installed the new version you will need to restart Internet Explorer.

Requirements

• Microsoft Windows with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4+

Known Problems

History

Version 2.4.1 [54.85 KB] (27 Aug 2003)

• Added better support for frames. Menu now opens in the top left corner of page instead of the centre, so the title bar is always visible even in small frames. Menu can be pinned to the page when scrolling. Added a word count function at the page level, so you can count all words on the current page. Fixed the Check image sizes function which had a bad bug preventing it from working at all. Fixed the IMDb lookup function which had an old URL.

Version 2.3.25 [53.90 KB] (5 Mar 2003)

• Fixed a small bug in Picture Explorer. If you used the Next or Prev buttons while thumbnails were still being downloaded it would stop downloading any more thumbnails.

Version 2.3.20 [53.83 KB] (2 Feb 2003)

• Added a new function that appears when you select a block of text. The new item will join multiple lines together and open the text as a URL in a new window. Great for opening a link that has been wrapped and broken. Also tweaked the default Picture Explorer settings to be friendlier to higher resolution screens.

Version 2.3.10 [53.62 KB] (15 Dec 2002)

• Added a search and lookup sub menu to text and page selection. The search and lookup sub menu provides multiple places where you can search for a word. A checkbox lets you select which sites to use for the search. Slightly changed the colors of the menu. Fixed problem with WHOIS lookup for non www domains. Grouped site and page functions into a sub menu.

Version 2.2.75 [52.48 KB] (28 Nov 2002)

• Added link to W3C HTML Validator and WHOIS domain ownership lookup. Changed the highlighting used for Select Another Element so that it changes the background color of the element to red instead of changing the border color. When the border was changing elements were moving around the page and it was sometimes difficult to select the element you were interested in.

Version 2.2.70 [52.15 KB] (15 Sep 2002)

• Added Highlight Element function. Added Apply Style function.

Version 2.2.65 [51.56 KB] (28 Jul 2002)

• Updated toolbar icon so that it looks better on XP. Added character iteration support to Picture Explorer. Added Remove Formatting function. Added Save As function. Fixed menu resizing problems with IE6.

Version 2.2.50 [51.12 KB] (17 Jul 2002)

• Cleaned up some rendering uglies. Updated Picture Explorer with some new features and cleaner interface. Other small changes.

Version 2.2.40 [50.75 KB] (15 Jul 2002)

• Added tooltips to all menus and functions. Added Bobby usability website functions. Some better error handling. Other small changes.

Version 2.2.35 [49.28 KB] (19 Jun 2002)

• Now handles frames a lot better from the toolbar button. If frames are detected then a small anchor is added to each frame and can be selected to render the menu in that particular frame. Added a section for certain elements to display more information about the selected element. Updated the About section with links to readme and to contact the author. Changed slightly some of the colors and borders.

Version 2.2.25 [48.89 KB] (25 Apr 2002)

• Added the ability to select a new element and to select the parent element of the current element. Cleaned up the Picture Explorer and added some more options including a slideshow feature. A few small enhancements. Built installation with new Visual Studio.NET installer project. The installation now requires the updated version of Windows Installer.

Version 2.2.0.1 [43.25 KB] (11 Apr 2002)

• Changed the relationship between the menu rendering and the action scripts to allow more flexibility in future designs changes. Added a few new functions. Added separators and now the menus are a lot cleaner.

Version 2.0.1.3 [42.11 KB] (28 Mar 2002)

• New release. I have just released version 2.0.1.3 of the Bradley IE Extensions. The latest version is a completely new implementation and is very different from the version 1 releases. Unlike version 1, which added several new toolbar buttons and context menu items to access the tools, version 2 provides just a single toolbar button and context menu item. If selected though a DHTML menu is rendered into the current document where all of the new tools can be selected. If you launch the menu via the context menu then which functions are available depends on what time of object you selected. The whole new design enables a lot more tools to be presented and those tools are organised a lot better.

Version 1.3.1.1 [51.86 KB] (2 Dec 2001)

• Added the following functions: Edit Page, Page Details, Resize Window, Zoom Page.

Version 1.2.1.1 [43.48 KB] (26 Nov 2001)

• Added a Zoom parameter to Picture Explorer which is supported by IE5.5+.

Version 1.1.2.1 [41.09 KB] (20 Aug 2001)

• I have updated the Bradley IE Extensions to version 1.1.2.1. I've just added new functionality to the Picture Explorer (Local) to support zoom of the main image for browsers that support the zoom style (eg. IE5.5+). I'm not sure if I'm going to support the Remote version much longer - as the Local version is much cooler - so I haven't added this feature to it. You can download the latest version of these tools from here. Please be sure to uninstall any previous versions before installing the new version.