Bookmarklets????? WHAT r they?

[Sanjeev Ammanna]

Hi,

I only know that Bookmarklets:
1) help search more quickly, and in ways not possible with a search engine ,
2) are free,
3) and help extract data from a webpage....

Can anybody help me understand it and share their experience using them. I am completely a novice to it.

Thanks
-Sanjeev

[Marilyn Dwyer]

some of their functions: page freshness, find all phone numbers on a page, list all links associated with page, list all emails associate/on page, etc. many bookmarklets works best with IE, not firefox. go to http://www.bookmarklets.com/ for more information and some to download. From that site "Bookmarklets are simple tools that extend the surf and search capabilities of Firefox and Explorer web browsers.
Bookmarklets are free.
Bookmarklets allow you to:
* Modify the way you see someone else's webpage.
* Extract data from a webpage.
* Search more quickly, and in ways not possible with a search engine.
* Navigate in new ways.
...and more. Over 150 bookmarklets are available. "

[Alexander Fedossov]

Bookmarklets are short javascripts helping to automate certain actions executed from within an internet browser.

Example:

javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt('Keywords...',''))};if(Qr)location.href='http://google.com/search?query='+escape(Qr)+'&num=10'

Copy this line to you Firefox prompt and press return. This simple Google Search bookmarklet then will open a prompt window asking you to enter a keyword. After that you'll get the google search results for your keywod. The trick is you don't have to load the google page first. That's all. That javascript line can be 'coverted' into a simple link on your own homepage or into an internet-brwoser bookmarks button. So that you just have to push the button to start the bookmarklet.

There are a lot of useful ready-to-use bookmarklets on the internet.
Providing some java knowledge you could create your own customized bookmarklets.

Alexander