Bookmarklet (nonfiction)
In web browsers, a bookmarklet is a bookmark or a hyperlink that contains JavaScript commands that add new features to the browser.
Regardless of whether bookmarklet utilities are stored as bookmarks or hyperlinks, they add one-click functions to a browser or web page.
When clicked, a bookmarklet performs one of a wide variety of operations, such as running a search query or extracting data from a table. For example, clicking on a bookmarklet after selecting text on a webpage could run an Internet search on the selected text and display a search engine results page.
Another name for bookmarklet is favelet or favlet, derived from favorite.
History
Steve Kangas of [bookmarklets.com] coined the word bookmarklet when he started to create short scripts based on a suggestion in Netscape's JavaScript guide.Before that, Tantek Çelik called these scripts favelets and used that word as early as on 6 September 2001 (personal email). Brendan Eich, who developed JavaScript at Netscape, gave an account of the origin of bookmarklets [to do: add quotation].
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External links:
- Bookmarklet @ Wikipedia
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