Woot! Just solved another long-running problem with the LGF Pages posting window — if you tried to select a large amount of text, you’d get a “URI Too Long” error message. This is because there’s a rather small limit on the amount of characters a URL can contain. And now that the underlying HTML code is also included, it’s pretty easy to run into the limit.

So now the bookmarklet uses some arcane trickery to POST the selected text to the Pages window, using an HTML form instead of encoding it in a URL. There’s still a limit but it’s so large no one will ever run into it now.

Still testing, but I’ll be making the new version of the LGF Pages bookmarklet available soon.