“Wiki It!” bookmarklet
Via Acidus, I found this really cool bookmarklet. All you have to do is drag it up to the tool bar on either IE or Firefox. Then when you use the cursor to highlight a word, like, I don’t know, maybe –> Salsa < --, and hit that button, up pops a little window that has that Wikipedia entry, if it exists.
Acidus credits Decius with a breakthrough piece of example code. I'm crediting Acidus with my version. My version does the exact same thing, except it looks up the highlighted word on m-w.com (Merrian-Webster).
The Wikipedia bookmarklet is here: Wiki it!
Author: Acidus
The Merrian-Webster bookmarklet is here: MW it!
Author: Standard Mischief
2005-09-24 12:49 by Standard Mischief, Filed under:found object 1 Comment »
Standard Mischief » Blog Archive » Google can and should do better. Says :
[...] Enter Milly again. She figured out a way to crunch the checksum and wrote a little bookmarket program. It works similar to my Merriam-Webster tool. To use it, you just drag it over to your tool bar (I think this only works in Firefox and I.E.) go to Google and click on the button. It will then prompt you to set your prefs. Done. [...]
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