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The page Test.AddLinkBookmarklet has this recipe enabled if you wish to try it out.

Note that once you've bookmarked the link created by (:addlink:), it's okay to remove or comment out the (:addlink:) markup in the page of links (the bookmark in the browser will still function).

I created a version of the AddLinkBookmarklet to work with the Kind-ofBlog ? and Tags recipes. kob-addlink Δ works the same as the above Bookmarklet (you have to put (:addlink:) someplace to create the links to the bookmarklets), but then the bookmarklets adds a blog entry for the page you're visiting, includes the selected text, prompts for tags, and adds a link to the page. If no text is selected, it prompts for that too. See instructions in the header of the kob-addlink.php file for installation instructions. Andy Kaplan-Myrth May 31, 2006, at 02:34 PM

Thanks for that, Andy. I wanted a recipe that would be about half-way between Nils' and yours, to be able to add a bookmark to a generic page. So I took both of yours and mashed them up. addlink-tags Δ is the result. It adds a bookmark entry to a wiki page by following the same convention of putting the (:addlink:) text in the page to create the bookmarklet that sends bookmarks to that page. Mine also include page title, url, selected text (if any; if none selected, a description is prompted for), and possible tags (with the addition of a bookmark tag).

Note: Andy: there is a bug in your bookmarklet javascript:

            &tags='+tags,'bookmark'

I believe that should be:

            &tags='+tags+', bookmark'

...to append the bookmark tag to the set entered by the user.

Cheers! tamouse May 31, 2011, at 10:06 PM (holy cow! 5 years since your entry!)

I've made quite a few changes to the recipe I made, addlink-tags.php, which maybe requires it's own recipe page. There is little to none of either original source in it, although it is most definitely still inspired by the original. I'm going to make a new recipe, Cookbook:AddLinkTagsBookmarklet for this. — tamouse September 27, 2012, at 10:50 PM

How is this related to being a "Bookmarklet"? As far as I can tell it is for storing links on a PMWiki page instead of your browser. Perhaps you might change the name to something more mnemonic? Perhaps you could educate me on this. Someone might confuse this with recipe Bookmarklet GNUZoo 08 21 2006 1:00 am CST.

Since this recipe predates yours, maybe you should have noticed. Anyway, now that you have noticed, why don't you be diplomatic and think about a new name for yours before you go suggesting to others that their name is the one that should change. Personally, I prefer having this recipe retain its name.

Because names are supposed to be mnemonic. GNUZoo 08 21 2006 6:45 pm CST.

AddLinkBookmarklet is precisely the right name for this recipe. I wanted to search for this functionality and the first term that came to mind was "bookmarklet." (This is what del.icio.us, for instance, calls its own buttons to save links.) matt September 03, 2008, at 12:23 PM

Agreed. If we can agree for the non that Wikipedia is authoritative in this regard, until the term gets into the OED: Wikipedia:Bookmarklet:

A bookmarklet is an applet, a small computer application, stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page. The term is a portmanteau of the terms bookmark and applet. Whether bookmarklet utilities are stored as bookmarks or hyperlinks, they are designed to add one-click functionality to a browser or web page. When clicked, a bookmarklet performs some function, one of a wide variety such as a search query or data extraction. Usually the applet is a JavaScript program.
— tamouse September 27, 2012, at 10:47 PM

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