Talk:Bookmarklet

message: 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)
thread_title: Intro

message: 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)
thread_title: Many bookmarklets no longer work

message: 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)
thread_title:  508 or 488, IE 6.0 has limits on bookmarklet characters 

message: 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)
thread_title:  External links section 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Simplifying installation 

message: The term is a portmanteau of the terms bookmark and applet 
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)
replies: text: It's commonly noted around the web that it's a portmanteau, it's tough to say if that's because of this article though. I used a Google search for pages before the year 2000 and found a usage that gave that explanation, albeit in Czech. I added it as a reference and removed the citation needed template. Phette23 (talk) 05:39, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portmanteau? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  the one reference 

message: In an ongoing slow edit war, 
#examples are added, perhaps even written to sound encyclopedic. 
#edits are done for "ease of use", which results in a step-by-step guide, which WP is not.  
#deletions are done, rather than just revertions or rewrites.  
One clear example is both necessary and sufficient.  The current 'Search Wikipedia' example works in Firefox, Opera, Safari, and is described encyclopedically, and is cited. --Lexein (talk) 15:52, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example 

message: Cleaning ad-looking external link.
AFAIK, this this page should contain external links to resources about bookmarklets, but not to bookmarklets itself.
For list of links to/and individual bookmarklets should be created a separate page.
Desummoner (talk) 01:31, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links cleanup 

message: Using Chrome 5.0.375.38 beta on Ubuntu 10.04. Clicking the example bookmarklet without selecting any text opens a new Wikipedia search page with nothing in the search box instead of the input dialog. I fixed it for Chrome before (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bookmarklet&oldid=351398933), but it got reverted. What browsers don't work with my version? Blue Em (talk) 10:43, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: IE doesn't know the getSelection function. Amalthea 18:16, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I Fixed it for Chrome by changing if (!s) to if (!s || s==). I doubt that will break anything in other browsers. But if it does, feel free to revert it. --Blue Em (talk) 05:45, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example bookmarklet not working on Chrome 

message: Want more history.  What was the first company to use this?  In the past few years, a lot of web apps now offer a bookmarklet.  I didn't start seeing this until 2007, so I was curious what the first companies were to take advantage of this "favlet" technology.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.134.162.8 (talk • contribs) 23:49, 27 April 2011
:IIRC (roughly 1998) and oddly NetScape used the name bookmark for bookmarks and favlet for bookmarklets, while Internet Explorer used favorite for bookmarks and bookmarklet for bookmarklets. Wild guess, both tried an uncommon term for these beasts. Strange times, Netscape's browser engine was called mozilla, the predecessor of gecko used by Mozilla and later Firefox.
:The page here didn't mention favlet at all, and favlet was redirected to Bookmark (World Wide Web)#Bookmarklets) instead of bookmarklet, I tried to fix that. –84.46.52.12 (talk) 23:16, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of Bookmarklets 

message: ""^ Tested on Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome. Does not work in IE7 or IE8. Original source: Alex Boldt""
Working in internet explorer 9 windows7  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.111.197.50 (talk) 08:39, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tested in IE9

message: ", however, an applet is not to be confused with a bookmarklet, just as script written in JavaScript is not to be confused with a script written in Java."
Whatever does this add ?  If the reader sees the script as ECMAScript the "confusion" does not exist.
My family name in the USA ( my cousins ) is Shifflet ... should I add "not to be confused with Schiff" ? (unrelated name)
G. Robert Shiplett 13:21, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Bookmarklets are rare. Applets are scarce, JavaScript supplied server-side is common. It is necessary to distinguish between these, particularly as the name of bookmarklets is derived from the unrelated applet. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:34, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  applet versus app versus whatever 

message: Language like "Web browsers use URIs for the href attribute of the <a> tag and for bookmarks" might as well be written in code for the ordinary user. I realize that technical terms require technical terminology; but this one is pretty opaque for the non-programmer layperson. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:38, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translate into actual English? 

message: Do we really need the long quote in section History? --Mortense (talk) 09:48, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Long quote 

message: Braahma  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.129.205.164 (talk) 09:36, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Braahma 

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message: It would be useful if someone added proper crossbrowser code for obtaining character set info – document.inputEncoding, document.characterSet (non IE), document.charset, document.defaultCharset (IE)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:11CF:316:FD00:7CD2:B540:9233:4710 (talk) 14:41, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  &sect; Usage &sect; Example: character set