I want to create a bookmark like ClipClip.com ( http://www.clipclip.com/message/install_bookmarklet ) has for their site. If you add it to the toolbar in firefox it gives a nice drop down form from whatever page your on. Does anyone know how this is done or can point me to a tutorial? I tried doing a search but wasn't finding what I needed. P.S. I put this in Javascript because that's what it looks like their using. If it should be somewhere else please feel free to move it.
Bookmarklets are just simple JavaScript scripts stored as a bookmark. They run when the bookmark is selected and function as a button of sorts. The key issue is that you have a limi tof one line in which to code your functions. A technique some bookmarklet authors use is to append a <script> tag to the body of whatever document, to download an additional script. Googling "bookmarklet tutorial" will get you alot of results... here is one of the better ones http://www.webreference.com/js/column35/
Thanks - I guess it would help if I searched for the right term - "bookmarklet" never would of thought about that