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I also made some improvements to test styles. It used to only work in Mozilla, but now it works in Mozilla, Opera 7, and maybe IE 5.5 (but not IE 6.0). It now works correctly on XHTML pages in Mozilla. I also moved the test for window.closed inside a try..catch block, because at some point since I wrote the original test styles, Mozilla restricted window.closed to same-origin.

May 17, 2003

New bookmarklets:

Web development

zap presentational html

Zap

zap timers

Improvements to existing bookmarklets:

Validation

check images now works in new versions of Mozilla (after the fix for bug 190561) and degrades better in unsupported browsers.

Zap

remove redirects now looks at mouseover statusbar text if the original method (see if the URL contains another URL) fails. This makes it work at AlltheWeb search results, for example. Thanks to Guido Tonini for the suggestion.
zap events is now faster in Mozilla, and now works in Netscape 4.
zap plugins now recurses into same-site iframes instead of zapping them.
zap now includes zap timers and new versions of zap plugins and zap events.

May 5, 2003

New bookmarklets:

Bugzilla

prefill bug report

Search Engine Optimization

May 4, 2003

New bookmarklets:

Validation

quick validate: skips the "can't find doctype" and "can't find charset" stages of validation by supplying a default doctype (HTML 4.01 Transitional) when the page does not specify a doctype and by supplying the charset used by Mozilla.

Search Engine Optimization

word frequency
@sj, @fi (new Google datacenters)

Zap

zap cookies

May 3, 2003

New bookmarklet:

Zap

trigger rollovers to fix mystery meat navigation

April 26, 2003

New bookmarklets:

Page Links

hrefs as link text and full urls as link text

Forms

enlarge textareas

Search Engine Optimization (new section)

find links to squarefree (intended to be customized to find links to your site)
linkify (turns plaintext URLs into links)
query as link text
open in ie
google backlinks
atw internal backlinks, atw external backlinks
atw plaintext backlinks
Modify search: num=100, num=10, num=1
Switch search to another search engine: @google, @alltheweb, @teoma, @msn, @altavista
Switch search to another Google datacenter: @ex, @ab, @cw, @va, @dc, @in

April 21, 2003

New bookmarklets:

Validation

check alts

Web Development

computed styles

I made some more changes to the ancestors bookmarklet while I was working on computed styles. First, I made it go all the way to the root of the document, and in the process fixed the bug that it didn't show the id and class attributes of the BODY element. Second, I fixed two compatibility bugs. The bookmarklet now works in old versions of Mozilla (185889), thanks to Stuart Langridge, and now works with XMLDocuments in all versions of Mozilla, thanks to Jacques Distler.

April 7, 2003

New bookmarklets:

Validation

check images [Requested by "Tomyellow" in #mozillazine]

Zap

deleet (fixes l33tsp34k text) [Requested by "eazycheeze"]
force wrap (fixes table layouts)

April 5, 2003

Created this page (news.html) and the bookmarklets-announce list. This entry and earlier entries were not actually sent to the list because the list didn't exist.

March 29, 2003

New version of the JavaScript Shell (0.7) and the shell bookmarklet.

March 23, 2003

Added a feature to the ancestors bookmarklet: show IDs and classes along with tag names. So on mpt's blog,

BODY > DIV > DIV > DL > DD > P

now appears as

BODY > DIV#wrapper > DIV#content > DL > DD.newsItemDescription > P

March 20, 2003

This isn't really a bookmarklet, but fans of the zap plugins bookmarklet may find it useful. XBL in User Style Sheets: Hide Flash but make it available with one click on the placeholder.

March 17, 2003

Lots of new bookmarklets. My favorites are in bold.

Page Links

hide visited
int/ext links (colors links according to: external vs. internal vs. within-page) [inspired by a similar bookmarklet from bookmarklets.com]

Forms

remove maxlength [submitted by David Grossberg]
show hiddens [suggested by "shad"]
undisable
htmlarea ie (turns slashdot comment editing textareas, etc into wysiwyg)
htmlarea moz

Text and data

number lines (e.g. in a plain text file)

Zap

remove redirects (link to http://foo.com/r?t=http://bar.com becomes link to http://bar.com) [based on a submission by Michael Roller]
lowercase

Web development

ancestors (lists ancestors in status bar on hover, in the format ""BODY > TABLE tbody tr td > A")
onerror status
onerror alert

Validation

PDAize (accessibility check) [from Daniel Glazman's blog]

Misc

make numbered list (makes a list of links with URLs same as the page you're on but with the numbers changed, according to parameters you give)

Keyword bookmarklets for scripters (new section)

j (statement) (execute)
ja (expression) (alert)
- Typing "ja document.forms.length" in the address bar gives the number of forms in an alert.
jb (node) (blink several times)
jp (object) (list properties and functions in an alert)
- "jp document.body" lists the properties of document.body.
jcs (node) (lists computed styles)

Since I like ancestors a lot, I'm going to continue thinking about new uses for the status bar. Ideas? (Other bookmarklets that use the status bar: highlight for status and number of matches, allow no option for instructions, onerror status for script errors.)

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