#bookmarklets

"Bookmarklets" are an underutilized and frankly little-known feature in Chrome and Firefox (and probably most other browsers too) that allows you to create a bookmark that contains a little bit of JavaScript instead of a link to a web page.

when I tried to delete personal documents from the archive I realized that it is too boring to delete them one by one. Then with the help of Aei, created a bookmarklet to delete them page by page.

You have JavaScript. You need a bookmarklet. This does that.

"For times when you can't insert images into your posts, you can insert Unicons! Use this on Twitter, TypePad, Tumblr... pretty much any text field on the web that accepts unicode characters. "

"Internet getting you down? Tired of reading tales of doom and disaster? Ever wanted to cheer yourself up by looking at floofy kittins? Of course you have. And now you can! With this little bookmarkelet that replaces all images on the page with pictures of kittens."

"In a lot of ways I see Ubiquity as being a solid replacement for Greasemonkey and bookmarklets. It's far simpler and will make their execution much more flexible. I'll be curious to see what people end up doing with it, in the upcoming months."

"It's the essential tool for adding items from any website to your Amazon Wish Lists."

"This word count bookmarklet searches through the page you’re on, and attempts to report the word count of the selection. It will first look for the text selection, and if there is none, it will search for a textarea that has a selection."

"Here's a toolbar bookmarklet that looks for a MyBlogLog identifier on the page you're on, and uses the MyBlogLog API to dig out information about its reader roll"

"Here’s a little known secret: bookmarklets work on your iPhone."

"When clicked, they highlight a certain tag or set of tags in a specific color or background tile"

"Here’s a little tool to randomly re-order your Netflix queue."

"I thought I'd do you better and offer you more must-have javascript bookmarklets than you can swing a bookmarklet at - if you could swing a bookmarklet. Can you?"

"If no text is selected, the bookmarklet tries to find a page description in the HTML meta information."

"I've put together a way to have huge, arbitrarily sized bookmarklets, where most of the code resides outside of the bookmarklet link."

"The del.icio.us social bookmark system completely replaces my in-browser bookmarks with the addition of the following Keymarks (or Searchlets or Address-barlets or whatever you call them)."