On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 11:33, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> You can sort of do what you want in a cross-browser fashion. Kind of.
>> Create a new bookmark in the links toolbar on your browser with the
> following code as the url:
> javascript:Q=document.selection?document.selection.createRange().text:document.getSelection();void(window.open('http://blah/cgi-bin/foo?text='+escape(Q),'text
> selection bookmarklet',
> 'scrollbars=no,width=480,height=300,left=100,top=150,status=yes'));
>> (that should be all on one line!)
>> Now, highlight some text on your page, hit the link you created in your
> toolbar and up will pop a new window with your selection in the URL.
> Oh, all this ripped from the b2 "blog this" popup code by someone else,
> it should work but I haven't tested it.
That's very cool. Unfortunately it goes to Google regardless of
the URL I edit into it. Anyone got any idea why?
///Peter
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