Talk:Bookmarklet

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[edit] Intro

I tried to rewrite the intro to be more clear. Any constructive suggestions or help will be appreciated. John Harvey (talk) 01:16, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Q&A: How to make a bookmarklet

Forgive my blatent lack of wiki manners, I am a longtime wikipedia user, but a first time contributor. I want to create a javascript-based link inside my wiki that can be dragged into the Bookmarks bar of the browser. How do I format the wikitext in order to display a "clickable" javascript link on the resulting page, much like Google's examples here?

All of the examples I've seen, including this Wikipedia article, list the raw javascript and advise users to manually create a new bookmark and paste the text into it. That's not user-friendly enough for me (and judging by the comment in this Talk article farther down, not user-friendly enough for other people as well). Any help in correctly formatting the wikitext to display a javascript bookmarklet as a hyperlink would be greatly appreciated.

Please also forgive me if this isn't the approriate place to request this type of assistance. --Beporter 14:39, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Beporter - you may wish to try posting to one of the Wikipedia:Help desk pages - you'll likely get more eyes on your question there. Specifically, try Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing. Hope this helps --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 23:23, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks AbsolutDan! For those interested in following this question, you can read my question here: Proper Wikitext to Display a Javascript-only Hyperlink? --Beporter 15:51, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

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The Firefox bookmarklet uses document.getSelection, which no longer works, being deprecated in favor of window.getSelection.

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"Wikipedia offers a good introduction, although it gets techie a little bit too quickly" —Wall Street Journal Asia, November 25, 2005

Shoulda read that formatting page better ;)

Thanks

Oh, you'll get used to it. Despite our best efforts, the wiki formatting syntax isn't too difficult. :) Welcome aboard! --Brion

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Those External Link descriptions are uuuuuuuuuuuglyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! -- Zoe

They are very descriptive. --Menchi 22:18, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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The example bookmarklet doesn't seem to work.

Is it designed for a specific browser, or is it just written oddly?

Not sure.

Using Safari (mac), and when I C/P it into a link, it doesn't exactly do anything. I'm wondering if breaking it into 2 lines did anything.

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"favlets or favelets (the term was invented by Tantek Çelik on 2001-09-06 (personal email))"

Please explain why this is here.

If the term is not used (I never heared it), why is it in the entry?

How can you be sure that guy (women?) invented the term... It's a pretty obvious connection of silables in that context - that lets one suspect that it is *so* uncommonly used, that he was the only one ever using that term in "a personal email"? That sentence sounds strange for an encyclopedia anyways.... Iridos 19:43, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Could you please explain the example in more detail

Hello

Do you mind do exmplain the examples in more detail.

What I am supposed to do with these lines

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javascript:(function(){q=document.getSelection(); if(!q){void(q=prompt('Wikipedia keywords:',))}; if(q)location.href='http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search='+escape(q)})() --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

To save in a file and then make a link to that file or what?

Thanks

Uwe Brauer

[edit] Many bookmarklets no longer work

Many of the links in this article go to websites which haven't been updated in years, and many of the bookmarklets listed on many of them no longer work. This is because, with each version of Internet Explorer which comes out, microsoft has been weakening the ability of bookmarklets. Earlier versions allowed 2000+ character bookmarklets, the latest version of IE only allows them to be 488 characters in length. According to this page http://subsimple.com/bookmarklets/rules.asp microsoft will be fixing this in IE 7, but for now, many bookmarklets simply don't work anymore. --Xyzzyplugh 01:17, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 508 or 488, IE 6.0 has limits on bookmarklet characters

better reference I think we should mention this in the article. I was trying to research this very subject.

If you look at the bottom of the page from that link, you'll see "Last modified May 13, 2004", which is ancient by web standards. Lots of the bookmarklets webpages haven't been updated in years. --Xyzzyplugh 02:41, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links section

I have removed the External links section completely, as it contained nothing but links to Bookmarklet products. Wikipedia is not a linkfarm. --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 13:13, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Simplifying installation

I'm adding one-line versions of each example to simplify installation. And noting that usually, on HTML-based non-Wiki pages, bookmarklets can simply be dragged to the Links bar, or Bookmarks Toolbar, for one-step installation. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lexein (talk • contribs) 08:24, 18 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Portmanteau?

Is it? I thought the -let suffix is quite common in English, see 'starlet', 'wavelet', etc. 83.22.166.71 (talk) 13:17, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] the one reference

The one reference actually provided here is an email, in a blog comment. On the reliability scale, its right up there with crazy guy screaming on the corner. The article is going to need something a little more solid than that.--Crossmr (talk) 01:38, 26 November 2008 (UTC)