SYSTEM FOR CLIPPING WEBPAGES

摘要

Disclosed is software which enables a service which allows users to load screen-shots of webpages to boards as clipped content, which preserves “live” links to the webpages from the clipped content, which identifies the content which was clipped, and which preserves links and other dynamic content in the clipped content.

主权项

1. A method of identifying content in a webpage to be recorded, the method performed in a computer comprising a memory, the method comprising:
in the computer, receiving from a first server a webpage comprising a first item and rendering the webpage, the first item being a video element or an IMG or block level element; rendering a first identifier which indicates to a user of the computer that the webpage may be recorded; in response to a user selection of the first item, determining an element type of the first item and rendering a second identifier which indicates to the user that the first item may be recorded; in response to a current user selection position, determining that there is not one or more IMG or block level elements at the current user selection position, traversing up the DOM from the first item for an element not of a specified type, determining that the element not of a specified type is valid, counting the number of words in all inline children and keeping the element if it has more than a minimum number of words, and highlighting the words; and transmitting a location of the first item to a second server in conjunction with an instruction to record at least one of the first item or the webpage.