Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Wed, 27 Aug 2003

Just "Discovered": Safari Bookmarklets (Favelets)

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I have been hearing about "bookmarklets" / "favelets" for a while, but never paid much attention to them. Last night, I just discovered what they are all about. It's really cool -- a "bookmark" that does some useful JavaScript.

Alas, Safari isn't compatible with a lot of the ones out there, but I'm sure that will improve with time.

Some sites to check out:

(BTW, the term "bookmarklets" seems to be more common than Favelets -- a Google search on each term shows the clear "winner".)