Category Archive for 'Bookmarklets'
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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.)
Posted in Bookmarklets, Web Design | 16 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Bookmarklets, PHP, Web Design | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Bookmarklets, Music | 1 Comment »
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).
Posted in Absurdity, Bookmarklets, Music | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
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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 [...]
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Saturday, February 18th, 2006
Use Click2Zap to remove elements from the page for printing (remove text/images to save paper/ink) or reading comfort purposes. Note: I also have a more feature-rich version called MyPage.
Get it
You must enable Javascript! (right-click, add to favorites or bookmarks)
Features
click2zap panel fixed to the top right of the window.
as you rollover elements, they are highlighted with a [...]
Posted in Bookmarklets | 32 Comments »