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Date:      Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:28:26 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@smtp.ne.mediaone.net>, Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@izr.com>, questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Way Off Topic: Bookmarks
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0110161126460.2865-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <15307.3803.229953.802777@guru.mired.org>

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On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

> Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> types:
> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > > What I mean by a "scriptable browser" is one that lets me associate a
> > > command that includes information from the current page with a user
> > > command of some kind. Netscape can't do it. I don't think Mozilla
> > > can. Galeon might, but my builds of it fail to run.
> > Search for "bookmarklets". Javascript code that does exactly what you
> > describe, and from within netscape to boot.
>
> That's not exactly what I describe, and it's *certainly* not what I
> meant. Unless there's some way to add a menu entry or a button the
> toolbar that invokes the bookmarklet in question, so I can use it on
> any page, and not just on pages that include the bookmarklet.

Include the link on a page.

Right-click on the link, add as a bookmark.

File the bookmark in your "personal toolbar folder".

Hey presto, exactly what you want*. That's why they're called
"bookmarklets": code embedded in a javascript: "uri" that you bookmark.

jan

* even if you think you didn't describe or mean it :-)

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