27th April 2001
My old buddy Robert Scoble (who you'll meet at Gnomedex) loves sending links. The other day, he wanted me to use a series of them on one of my pages. Since his messages are typically sent in text format, and since Outlook automatically creates live hyperlinks out of properly formatted URLs, I copied the typed-out links to the clipboard and pasted them into a new (HTML) message. Instant hyperlinks (just add water)! Now what? Well, I could have dragged & dropped those things onto my desktop individually, but I chose (instead) to right-click in the message's body and select "View Source." Up popped the code in full HTML glory; another quick copy to the clipboard and I was set to paste elsewhere. I suppose an HTML e-mail message makes for a poor man's WYSIWYG HTML editor. When you're in a pinch, or you wanna get something formatted and uploaded quickly -- I can think of no easier way.