Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:07:31 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, 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: <15308.34163.936072.226660@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0110161126460.2865-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> References: <15307.3803.229953.802777@guru.mired.org> <Pine.GSO.4.31.0110161126460.2865-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> types: > 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. yes, I konw what they do. > jan > > * even if you think you didn't describe or mean it :-) It might be what the author of the bookmarklet wanted, but it's not what I wanted, meant or described. Of course, since I habitually run with javascript enabled, it actually does what I want *anyway*, no matter what the web page author wanted :-). <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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