Lil' Bookmarklets That Could
In case you don't know, a "Bookmarklet" is a special kind of bookmark that instead of opening a webpage, it executes a script that (usually!) improves your internet browsing experience. I wrote 2 to satisfy a need I had some time ago.
How do I set up a "Bookmarklet"?
To use bookmarklets, create a new empty bookmark on your browser. Rename as you want. Copy the bookmarklet code written below into the "address" field of your bookmark, making sure to have the code in just one line, with no carriage returns or newline characters. Then place your bookmark in your browser bookmark bar for easy access. Of course you can place it wherever you want.
"Email This" Bookmarklet
I often email my friends with stuff I found online. Usually I cut and copy some text from the web page into a new email or use Mac OS X mail service. But this involves doing too many things. It would be more logical to simply select the text and click a button on the browser to send an email with the selected text. This Bookmarklet does just that.
"Page images information" Bookmarklet
This script opens a popup window to display some page information, specifically about images: page title, page URL, the date when the page was last modified, the number of images loaded by the page, the number of applets loaded by the page, image name, pathname or URL of the image, image width and height. Only one popup is opened; that is, if you click the bookmarklet multiple times, the information will be appended to the same popup window. In other words the popup window works as a sort of console.
