Category Archive for 'Bookmarklets'

Rough code to prevent Shibboleth-related Firefox Lockouts

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Reason this might be useful.
/*
* Remove all _shibstate cookies if there are too many of them. This usually
* occurs due to Firefox session restores. Unfortunately we don’t know which is
* the active state cookie, so we have to delete them all, but this is a lessor
* crime than locking the user [...]

Multibyte Input Bookmarklet

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

All modern web applications should be using UTF-8 encoding. For developers with English keyboards (where all keys produce 7-bit ASCII), testing web forms with multibyte characters can be a pain. You can, of course, enter Unicode characters via obscure key combinations, but using this bookmarklet may be easier:
Get it
You must enable Javascript! (right-click, add to [...]

Hacking a 3rd party script for bookmarklet fun

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

A few weeks ago I created a simple bookmarklet that loads del.icio.us’s PlayTagger script into the current page. This post covers how some problems with this script were worked through.
Too late
The first challenge was that PlayTagger was designed to initialize itself (let’s call this method “init“) on window.onload: If a user fired the bookmarklet after [...]

Reload CSS Every… Bookmarklet

Monday, November 20th, 2006

One annoying aspect of writing a stylesheet is having to reload the page in your browser to see your incremental changes. There are ways to workaround this, but I find them less than ideal so I created ReloadCSSEvery. It refreshes only the CSS of a loaded page every 2 seconds so you can use your [...]

MyPage Bookmarklet

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

MyPage puts you in control of the current page: Remove, isolate, edit page items with keyboard control. On-screen print-preview emulation lets you see how the page will print while editing. (if you dug click2zap, try this out.)

PHP for Easy Bookmarklet Testing and Distribution

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

Bookmarklet authors have it tough. On top of the usual challenges of cross-browser Javascript testing, we’ve traditionally also had to workaround IE’s character limit and jump through hoops to embed code inside of javascript: links.
Bookmarklet Server (source) eases testing and deployment by allowing you to keep code where it should be—in .js files. A single [...]

PlayTagger bookmarklet

Friday, April 14th, 2006

PlayTagger loads del.icio.us’s Play Tagger in the page, which allows you to listen to (and bookmark) mp3 links.
Get it
PlayTagger
Shamelessly self-promoting test links
Brittle Stars – So Unfair
The French Horns – Brighter Now
Previously powered by…
This page used to have a bookmarklet that did a similar function using the open source XSPF Flash Music Player, but SourceForge now [...]

For Josh

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Inspired by a forward-thinking greasemonkey script, may I present the nomify bookmarklet. (mouse-click or press a key to return to your boring page).

Deliciousness

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

popularity

Alachua County Library Bookmarklet

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Whenever you’re on a page with an ISBN in the URL, like Amazon or some other bookish site, activate ACL to pop-up a search for that book within the Alachua County Library Catalog.
This was generated with the LibraryLookup Project’s Bookmarklet builder, which can build a similar bookmarklet for any library using one of 16 popular [...]