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 :-) -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Not as randy or clumsom as a blaster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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