Comments on: How to create a CrossBrowser Bookmarklet?

Question: How to create a CrossBrowser Bookmarklet?

mickbw — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:08:15 -0800

I have written a bookmarklet that works in Firefox but not in IE6. How can I change it to be supported cross browser or even as a separate bookmarklet to get the same results.

javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(Qr)location.href='http://jobsearchlog.com/ba.cfm?ad='+escape(Qr)+'&description='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&tags=%s'+'&ad4user=mickbw&url2job='+window.location.href;

Much of the JS was taken from the send to Delicious bookmarklet but I've never seen it work in IE anyway.

The purpose of the 'let is to send whatever text in a page has been selected, the URL and page title and submit the values into a database for use in my web application. In Firefox they would also be able to specify tags to be included in the insert.

Any suggestions on making this work in IE?

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:07:40 -0800

One problem is the document.getSelection method. More here.

By: moift

moift — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:54:02 -0800

If you didn't get it from Rhomboid's link, you can fix it like:

javascript:Qr=(document.getSelection)?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text;if(Qr) location.href='http://jobsearchlog.com/ba.cfm?ad='+escape(Qr)+'&description='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&tags=%s'+'&ad4user=mickbw&url2job='+window.location.href;

By: AmbroseChapel

AmbroseChapel — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:30:58 -0800

Why not just create two, one for IE and the other for Mozilla browsers? You can detect which browser they're on and offer them the appropriate one.

By: mickbw

mickbw — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:16:19 -0800

Sorry for the delay in marking this as the best answer.

I had moved on to another more pressing problem and finally got back to this issue.

Thanks for all the help to everyone.

Michael

By: mickbw

mickbw — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:17:32 -0800

I'm sorry for the delay in responding to these answers. Thanks for all the help

Michael