ISPv1.6 Toolbar: Process Webpage

Auto Process Webpage
The Thunder Bolt Button

This button is the primary way in which new images are added to your fusker collection. The button tries to process the currently displayed webpage in one of four ways:

Add an image file to your fusker collection
Add your selections from an Image Surfer Pro Form to your fusker collection
Add a group of images referenced by thumbnails to your fusker collection
As a last resort ask if you simply want to add the URL directly to your fusker collection

After adding images or processing an fusker collection form, a visualization of the last segment added will be displayed in the browser window.

Processing Individual Image Files

When clicked, the first thing the button does is look at the file extension of the currently displayed URL to determine if he webpage is an image file.

Internet Explorer will directly display image files as easily as it displays webpages. It can sometimes be difficult to determine if you are seeing a webpage or an image. When IE displays an image file it will automatically scale down large images to fit the display area and provide a zoom cursor to indicate clicking on the image will scale it to full size. The top left corner of the image will be placed in the top left corner of the display area and the address bar should display a URL which ends in a known image file extension (such as .jpg).

can almost always provide direct access an image if you have any doubt you have a direct link.

The exact behavior of the Bolt button is greatly affected by both your user preferences and the Auto Range Override toolbar extension when active. These settings determine whether or not the file added to your fusker collection will be auto fusked and how.

Auto fusking is an attempt by Image Surfer Pro to locate similar images by computing a numerical fusk for the last segment added to the fusker collection. For example an image file such as .../images/01.jpg raises the question of whether or not .../images/02.jpg or .../images/00.jpg also exist or even if .../images/100.jpg exists. You can configure how Image Surfer Pro looks for these images as well as whether or not it even makes the attempt.

Processing Image Surfer Pro Forms

Image Surfer Pro Forms are built using the button. Each image from a webpage is broken out of the webpage and placed in the left column of a table. Links associated with the image are placed in the second column of the table. You may choose which links get added to your fusker collection by marking check boxes for each image and/or link in the table.

When you click the button, If it determines the current displayed webpage is not an image, it will check the header information of the webpage to determine if it is an Image Surfer Pro generated form. When an Image Surfer Pro Form is found it uses information about each of the check boxes to determine the URLs to add to your fusker collection.

The file extension of URLs added to the fusker collection by processing an Image Surfer Pro Form are NOT checked to determine if they are in fact images and the resulting entry in the fusker collection is NOT auto range fusked. Each individual file may become part of a list fusked file if they fall in the same directory structure as other files in the fusker collection.

Processing Thumbnail Posts

A Thumbnail Post is a specific type of webpage where many of the images on the page are small "thumbnail" sized images which are direct links to larger versions of the same images. Image Surfer Pro can add all of the linked larger images to your fusker collection with a single click of the button.

Expanded visualization pages created by Image Surfer Pro are a specialized version of a Thumbnail Post because the images link directly back to themselves.

If the webpage currently displayed is determined to be neither an image file nor an Image Surfer Pro Form, then each image on the page is inspected. If an image has an associated hyper-link to another URL, the extension of the hyper link determines if the destination is an image file. Destinations of hyper-linked images which are also images are added to the fusker collection in the order they are found on the page.

Images added to the fusker collection in this way are NOT Auto Range Fusked. Each image is added independently, but may be grouped in a fusked list file if it falls into the same directory structure as other files in the fusker collection

Adding Non-Images To Your Fusker Collection

The button will automatically determine the type of webpage being processed If the page is not one of the three types it is expecting it will ask you if it should add the page to your fusker collection anyway.