Do You Use Bookmarklets?

Author: Mitch Keeler

For me, bookmarklets were all the rage before I found the customizable interface of the extendable Firefox. For those of you who might not be in the know about what bookmarklets are, here is how it is described on the rough streets of browser town.

A bookmarklet is a small JavaScript program that can be stored as a URL within a bookmark in most popular web browsers, or within hyperlinks on a web page. Because Internet Explorer uses the term favorites instead of bookmarks, bookmarklets are also less commonly called favelets by users.

Bookmarklets can be used for a number of things. Some of the ones I still use to this day would be the ones that resize the browser to other screen resolutions. This way I still know what my Web sites look like for those poor folks that are still browsing at 800 x 600.

Where can you find some of the best ones out there? Here are a few links to get you started:

+ Bookmarklets.com
+ Bookmarklets on Gibney.org
+ Jesse’s Bookmarklet Site

Have any other good resources or do you have a favorite bookmarklet of your own? Feel free to share!