ISPv2.0 Toolbar: Process Webpage

Processing Webpages
The Process Page Button

For most users, this button is the primary way in which new images are added to your fusker collection. The process of adding an image URL to the fusker collection consists of the following steps:

Determine the image URL to be added
Build an auto fusked tree branch from the URL information
Merge the newly created fusker tree branch into the existing fusker tree
Display the result in the browser window

Determining The Image URL

Direct Image Link: 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. If the displayed page is itself an image, it becomes the image URL which will be added to the fusker collection.

NOTE: 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. Either or the Copy Image URL menu option can almost always provide access to a Direct Image Link if you have any doubt.

ISP Form: If the displayed website is not an image, the button 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 image URLs to add to your fusker collection. Each URL is processed in order from the top of the form to the bottom of the form.

After Image Surfer Pro has processed all of the "Add" selection boxes on the ISP Form and added the selected image references to your fusker collection, it will process the "Search" selection boxes from the top of the form to the bottom of the form. Each link you have selected for search will be used in a deeper search for image references.

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

Image Gallery: If the displayed website is neither an image nor an Image Surfer Pro Form, the button will attempt to process the website as an Image Gallery. Each link on the page is inspected. If file linked to is an image file, then . Destinations of hyper-linked images which are also images are added to the fusker collection in the order they are found within page.

NOTE: 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.

Building A Fusker Tree

Each image reference added is built into a fusker tree independently. The creation of a fusker tree is easily done by breaking apart the URL reference at each directory marker (i.e. "/"). Each directory in the path becomes a directory segment and neither split nor roll up is applied. The final segment in the tree is usually a file segment.

Auto fusking is an attempt by Image Surfer Pro to locate similar images by computing a numerical fusk for the file segment. 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. Auto fusking is only applied to the new file segment if the image reference came from the processing of a Direct Image. When the image reference is coming from the processing of an Image Surfer Pro Form, Image Gallery, or Directed Search the resulting file segment(s) are NOT auto fusked, but may be combined into a fusked file if they are in the same branch of the tree depending upon your user preferences.

The exact details of the auto fusking process are configured by your user preferences and the Auto Range Override toolbar extension. These settings determine whether or not the file segment will be auto fusked and how.

Tree Merging

After building a small tree from the image reference and applying auto fusking to that tree, the tree is merged with your existing fusker collection. The merger process can be a bit complicated but the results are rather intuitive. New directory path information will appear as a new branch in the fusker tree. List and numeric fusks are not automatically generated or expanded at the directory level.

The merger process will "equalize" the "roll up level" of the new fusker tree to match that of the branches it is compared to in the existing fusker tree. This can help propagate your structural preferences automatically as you build your fusker collection.

At the file segment level the setting of the {Auto combine individual files into fusked files} configuration governs how file segments are merged. If it is enabled, then new file segment will combine information with the first file segment found within the same path to form an optimally fusked file segment. This includes any information added by the auto ranging done when the file segment was created. The Optimization Process is applied after combining the information such that duplicate references are removed and the final segment may be either list or numerically fusked.

Displaying Results

The tree selection is moved to the final segment in the branch of the last image URL reference merged into the fusker collection. A specific view of the selected segment is generated. The resulting webpage looks similar to and Expanded view of the file segment except the entire path of that image reference is maintained and used to chose the correct iteration step at each fusked segment in the path. This should guarantee the images shown include the image originally referenced.

In the case of Image Galleries and Image Surfer Pro Forms the webpage generated may or may not contain all of the images added as only the path for the last image is utilized. If the images create multiple branches in the fusker tree - only the last branch created will be seen.

If a Directed Search is performed, the browser is returned to the ISP Form when the search is completed and no visualization of the modified tree is created.

Adding Non-Images To Your Fusker Collection

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