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MicrosoftIntroducing web capture for Microsoft Edge
Since the release of the new Microsoft Edge, we have heard a lot of feedback about missing the web notes tool that allowed you to capture and mark up content across the web. Frankly, we’ve missed it too! But first, we wanted to make it better. While web notes was a great feature, there was also room for improvement. Many of you reported using it for capturing quick screenshots to copy or share, while others loved the ability to to mark-up full webpages with scrolling. So, we designed the new screenshot feature, web capture, with this in mind and are excited to introduce the basic screen capture functionality to our Dev and Canary builds. In the near future, you can expect to see more functionalities added to web capture, like adding ink or highlights to your captures, capturing full webpages, and scrolling while marking them.
To try it out, use the Settings and more menu (...) in the top right corner of the browser and select Web capture.
When you open web capture, you can use the selection tool to capture just the content you want. We found that sometimes you want more than what you’re able to see on the webpage, so we have added the ability for you to select content lower down on the page. To do this, just hold down the selection tool and drag to the bottom of the page; the page will automatically start to scroll so that you can capture everything you need in one go.
Once you are done with the capture, you will see a menu with a couple of options: 'Copy' and 'Add notes'. Click Copy to add the image to your clipboard. It will then be available for you to paste into any application. If you want to mark up the screenshot with inking tools, select the Add notes option. You will see the image in a dialog box where you can draw on it, share, save and copy with your annotations.
If you love web capture and want to access the tool more quickly, you can pin it directly to your browser toolbar. Just right click on the option in the Settings and more menu (...) and select Show in toolbar. You can also use the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+S) to invoke web capture.
Try out the new tool and let us know what you think! We love hearing your feedback. From within Microsoft Edge, you can go to “…” menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback, or simply use the shortcut (Shift+Alt+I) to open the feedback tool.
- The Microsoft Edge Product Team
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- It's using controlled feature rollout, only available to a subset of insiders.
- Quick suggestion, there should option to upload screenshot to cloud or image host service.
1.Take screenshot
2.Upload it online (For example dropbox)
3.Share the link with friend
Like imgur
Suggestion second, gif creation and screen recording tool so that we dont have to take help of third party programs.To second vineydhiman's point, will it be possible to mark up a web page and then have that mark up saved with the user's Edge profile and synced to other Edge browsers?
The ability to scroll a snip is a great enhancement over what Windows' Snip & Sketch does. Thank you!
- Gif is an old unoptimized format. you can record a 1 minute 1080p clip in HVEC (H.265) format in less than 5MB with high quality. doing the same thing in Gif will give you a roughly ~500MB file size.
And there is also WebP with tons of advantages over Gif.
- Of course dragging the selection rectangle to scroll does not work with touch, as expected. I wish someone would make a browser for Windows where touch/tablet usage sits at a high priority on its UX design. How do I miss the tablet UX (but ONLY the UX) of Metro IE.
- honestly, I'm not even on my touch-based Surface to test this right now, but I've been so frustrated with the poor touch support in Edge for years now that this doesn't surprise me at all.
- I use Surface Book 3 and dragging and scrolling with touch works as expected.
- I'm talking about specifically about the web capture feature. With mouse it is possible to capture more than the visible area of the website by moving the mouse to the edges of the window while grabbing the selection rectangle. With touch, trying to move the rectangle past the edge of the window is impossible and attempting to do a normal scroll outside of the rectangle just cancels the whole operation.
I have it on Edge Dev right now. I do and need to take screenshots and annotate them regularly but web capture at its current state is not very helpful for me, I mean it works, it takes screenshots as it's supposed to 🙂
There is a thread dedicated to this feature, a lot of good suggestions mentioned there, please consider all of them and implement the most requested ones.
Some missing features that I'm looking for: (annotating/writing on web page,
take screenshot while scrolling down a web page, add sticky notes to the web captures, integration with OneNote, option for "save as" to save the web capture to a specific place instead of the default downlaods folder, etc)Another thing I should mention is that this feature is very useful for other operation systems (Linux/Mac) which might not have something like Snip & Sketch, so a built-in tool in the browser will come handy.
Thanks
- I find the snip and sketch tool to be a hot mess. It's a "clunky" work flow. I use FastStone Screen Capture- a simple utility that allows easy screen captures without using the keyboard (It keeps your eyes on your screen). I can enter text on a capture it, draw arrows, highlight a selection on a capture, blur or pixelate information as needed, capture video....
I find the current iteration of "Snip and Sketch" pretty useless- 
vygadekaHotCakeX thanks for the super prompt reply on the post. You can take screenshots while scrolling with web capture today. We are also adding the capability to capture entire webpage and annotate on top similar to Microsoft Edge legacy. There are also other updates planned for the feature beyond that. Please stay tuned.
- Falta outra ferramenta tipo "ink", para fazer anotações com uma pen interactiva com o monitor para poder escrever com a nossa letra ( caligrafia )
