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Archived Comments, replied by ekbworldwide @ Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:40:46 -0500

ekbworldwide — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:40:46 -0500

An idea

I think your script could allow people to make their own anchors on pretty much any page whatsoever that were 'permanent' and 'bookmarkable' via ordinary urls (as opposed to bookmarklets).

I got the idea from Wikipedia and this script:
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http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6413

example

On any Wikipedia page - all of the links in the "Contents" box are actually anchors that can be bookmarked.

Guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar
Guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [History]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar#History
etc...

On the Wikipedia Guitar page - a person using your script could shift-middle-click, as example, just before the phrase

>Most electric guitar bodies<

and your script could make a link with an anchor - but use a google search url starting with a question mark instead of the url itself.

? "Most electric guitar bodies" site:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar - Google Search
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&...

The question mark seemed like a good idea since it's already used in the address bar to search the preferred search engine.

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If your script is installed - since the google search starts with a question mark - your script could redirect the url, create the anchor on the page and go to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar#Most+electric+guitar+bodies

And the title could be rewritten to show the anchor text:

Guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Most electric guitar bodies]

If the text can't be found - the person would still be at the right url and the title could show the problem

Guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia >>Text Not Found!<< [Most electric guitar bodies]

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If your script is disabled or not installed - the google search url allows the bookmark to degrade gracefully. Mystery meat urls and 404 messages are avoided.

The person would end up at google and they could see the destination url and the text in question.

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If I weren't so awful at programming - I'd write the script myself. But that's a gigantic "if".

Archived Comments, replied by simon! @ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:15:54 -0500

simon! — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:15:54 -0500

this IS indeed a very useful script, thanks.
pretty hard for me to use (maybe I need some more time than 2 min)
can you attach a screencast?

you might also want to use it with increment ▲ & decrement ▼ (bookmarklets)

Archived Comments, replied by Descriptor @ Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:05:36 -0500

Descriptor — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:05:36 -0500

It occurred to me that I could modify this to use the Back and Forward to move between bookmarked items. Bookmarking a spot on the page could add it to the browser's history, then clicking Back (and then Forward) would move back and forth between bookmarks.
I could add this to the "old behavior", mentioned above. Currently, adding a bookmark simply marks the spot, it never adds it to the History, so you have to use the hot keys at least once.
If anyone is interested, just leave a comment.

Archived Comments, replied by Descriptor @ Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:44:36 -0500

Descriptor — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:44:36 -0500

Version 1.3
* Minor code changes

Archived Comments, replied by Descriptor @ Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:10:14 -0600

Descriptor — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:10:14 -0600

Version 1.2

Added option replaceHistory which allows the back button to go to the previous page, instead of the previous Page_Bookmark.
Reorganized functions in order to use built-in handleEvent
Moved CSS style rules to PB_Prefs. All configurable options are now in PB_Prefs.

Archived Comments, replied by Descriptor @ Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:15:38 -0600

Descriptor — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:15:38 -0600

Version 1.1

Changed marker to a bullet.
Changed mouse button to shift+middle-click to avoid conflicts with the scroll ball.
Improvements to button capture code.
When the last mark is removed, the next mark added uses the number of the last mark removed, so that number is not skipped.
Added internal style function. Now no Greasemonkey functions are used.

Archived Comments, replied by Descriptor @ Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:22:37 -0600

Descriptor — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:22:37 -0600

First version 1.0
You may want to limit the included sites that this script runs on.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews @ Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:49 -0600

Jesse Andrews — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:49 -0600

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