Quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map.

That's crazy. My friend and I just spent a few days over the holidays building a quote site using Django. Ours is at http://www.snipquote.com if you want to check it out. You install a firefox extension, then highlight text on any web page, right click and SnipQuote.

Nice tool!

Imagemaps are underutilized- I had posted one way that I had considered using them, but your idea on how to use them could be a lot more useful. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77853

The performance seems a bit sporadic- Sometimes it'll work well, but othertimes I get a black page without the URL.

Can you elaborate a bit on the way this works on the backend? It looks like it's using a Gecko backend- Are you rendering to the screen and then dumping, or are you using a custom back-end, just as the java-gecko port, and pulling directly from there?

Sort of like browsershots, but taken to the next level. Took a while for the image to show up but once that happened it was quite cool. This seems particularly useful where you want to be able to quote images/diagrams from a page, tables, etc. In terms of text, it is not particularly useful unless the text provides a specific context for the images being "quoted". On the whole, very cool.

Otherwise, is the logo meant to look like a bbcode, ie: that capturing a screen shot is as easy as using bbcode? Or am I digging too deep into this?

It doesn't work well when the target website uses Flash - Google Finance for instance. However I found it interesting and voted +1.