| Bookmarklets are short JavaScript programs that can be run from the address bar, therefore they can be bookmarked. Here is a simple test you can type directly into your address bar -- javascript:alert('Testing 1-2-3') What is more interesting about bookmarklets is that you can temporarily change the appearance of a web page in your browser. Reloading a page by hitting the Reset button (F5) does away with your temporary changes. Some useful things that can be done with bookmarklets is restoring your ability to control the appearance of a webpage. Perhaps one of the most useful is the ability to change the colors to black text with a white background (Zap Colors, Plain B&W). Perhaps the web page has an annoying background image that follows you as you page up or page down, it can be eliminated (Remove Background Image, zap style sheets). Some really interesting things you can do are marking the borders of tables (show blocks), view a selection in a new window (view selection), highlight links, distinguish between internal and external links (int/ext links), restore context menu, even sorting a Table (sort table) -- Sort Table does not appear to be working.. |
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