From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 12: 7:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93B8437B403 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 5418 invoked by uid 100); 16 Oct 2001 19:07:31 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15308.34163.936072.226660@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:07:31 -0500 To: Jan Grant Cc: Mike Meyer , Louis LeBlanc , Mark Drayton , questions Subject: Re: Way Off Topic: Bookmarks In-Reply-To: References: <15307.3803.229953.802777@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jan Grant types: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Jan Grant 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 :-). 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