Book Marklet
It turns out that you can put JavaScript in bookmarks just by making the "protocol" part of the URL "javascript". These bookmarks can consequently be used as a kind of macro to extend the surf and search capabilities of WebBrowsers. Things that bookmarklets can do include:
- Modifying the way you see someone else's webpage
- Extracting data from a webpage
- Searching more quickly, and in ways not possible with a search engine
- Navigating in new ways
Examples:
- UserName - for setting a WikiWikiWeb UserName cookie
- WikiBookMarkletExamples - Misc examples
- WikiBookmarklet - for enhancing the use of this wiki
- TheAsdfBookmarklet - for the lazy HTML form user
- DictionaryBookmarklet
- NextNumberBookmarklet
- WaybackMachine
- http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ - A range of utility bookmarklets, grouped into categories such as Text and Data, Validation, Search, LogAnalysis, WebDevelopment and so on.
- http://www.bookmarklets.com/ has a large number of bookmarklets, though not all are useful.
Instructions:
- Copy the text of the link, say: javascript:alert("foo")
- Create a new bookmark, probably somewhere on your "Personal Toolbar"
- Set the URL to the whole thing -- javascript:alert("foo")
- Enjoy (although that particular one is not very enjoyable).
Contributors: FridemarPache, a WikiGnome