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Bookmarklets

Bookmarklets are, IMHO, being used for more and more funky functions. I really like the Facebook and Tumblr bookmarklets that scoop out information about the type of content you want to post and then sends them off to the respective sites. John Gruber recently reposted his JavaScript Bookmarklet Builder - which is useful, but if you're planning [...]

iPod Touch Bookmarklets & Microformats

Although this is should be obvious, since the iPod Touch comes with Safari, I've found to my pleasure: you can run bookmarklets through Safari (mobile).

Detect Global Variables

I've got a handy little bookmarklet that I use to check whether any variables have slipped out in the to global namespace (i.e. on to the window object). Globals Note that all global variables (including functions) that have been added by your page, will be written to via console.log. The bookmarklet will also prompt to filter out globals, [...]

Plain and simple

Cameron Moll gave a presentation at dConstruct 2007. At one point during the presentation, he demonstrated how he checked that the typography still held the weight on the National Gazette front page redesign (pg. 42). Since they're fun nuggets of code, I've written a simple bookmarklet that strips colour, images and background decoration from the page, leaving [...]

Firebug in IE for *any* web site

As a web developer, I'm constantly using Firebug, but when it comes to testing in IE it's a nightmare if there's any bugs. Firebug does provide a 'lite' version, but you have to have in it in every page you want to debug. Well, not anymore.

Microformats Bookmarklet

If you're at all familiar with Microformats, or even just a vCard, then you may well be interested in the bookmarklet I've written. If not - get reading - interesting stuff (I'm also planning to convert my film reviews to hReviews). It allows the user to load an overlaid window on the current [...]