Safari: Make Link

I would imagine the menu options are there so that it is accessible to blind users or people who would need alternative interfaces to enter URLs. They probably have a way of accessing context menu items that would be a lot easier and natural to that type of user.

you can also click and drag the link a bit and the url will show up. I read somewhere that this is more secure as the url listed in the status bar can be faked somehow.

Safari does have a status bar but for some reason it's switched off by default. Just visit the View menu to turn it on. See Mac Tip # 135 at http://mactips.info/tips/index.php?p=601 for more detail and visit the MacTips site for hundreds of other useful Mac Tips (Rss feed available).

While we're (sort of) on the subject - does anyone know any way of previewing the url of a link without actually clicking on it in safari? I *wish* safari would just pop up a little tool-tip telling my where a link was taking me, or have a status bar at the bottom like a lot of other browsers do... Is there some plugin out there that does this? Si

This does work in Mail.app, v2.0.3 anyway. Just highlight a text string (could be a word, or a complete URL, whatever) and ctrl+click on it and select "Edit Link..." Enter the web address and voila. You can also use this function to create mailto: links and ichat: links (e.g., enter this as your URL: aim:goim?screenname=email@address.com ...replacing with your iChat email address, o' course!).

What it does is automatically makes the selected text into a clickable link without having to add any code, in case you want to add one to a post, like this (http://www.stableresearch.com).

I see poor transplanted Windows user using the Mac's in the GCOM labs at my college every day who can't figure out how to make Safari load a web page because it is missing the Go button next to the URL field. Since they can't wrap their minds around the concept of the Return or Enter buttons the Open URL contextual menu item might be good for them (if the labs had two button mice).

weird, this doesn't work in mail.app, so now I really don't get it, the one place I can see this would be useful and it doesn't work.

Viveka, thanks for suggesting Google. What a sweet site! You mean it searches the internets for me? ;) I did try google first, but I didn't find anything that told me what I wanted to know, so I thought I would ask the good TUAW'ers and: a. get a great answer, which I did b. share the answer in an update to the post, which I will Thanks to all of you!

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