MetaTalk posts tagged with bookmarklets

Metafilter Quoting Bookmarklet

Jeff Howard — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:17:02 -0800

Here's a little quoting bookmarklet for Metafilter threads that I thought folks might find useful. Highlight a text snippit you'd like to quote and click the bookmarklet. It'll format the snippit as a quote and paste it into the comment box for you. Just drag the bookmarklet into your bookmarks bar in Safari or Firefox. I had cobbled together something like this for another forum that required usenet-style quoting and I thought it'd be fairly easy to adapt to Metafilter. I haven't tried greasemonkey or any of the other quoting solutions, so this might be similar. It quotes text with italics, the username (no @ symbol) and a link to the original comment. The username/link are omitted for short threads or in cases where authorship is unclear to the script.

Here's a little bookmarklet that tells you the average user age contibuting to the thread.

DrJohnEvans — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:29:24 -0800

So I keep noticing thousands of new usernames in comment threads (which is awesome), and I got to wondering about how user age/contribution patterns were evolving on a threadwise level with the new users settling in. Being a non-statistician, I didn't care enough to perform a serious study, so I just threw together a little bookmarklet that tells you the average user age contributing to the page. It's totally worthless, but a bit of fun.

Bookmarklets: secret knowledge sought

stupidsexyFlanders — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:55:39 -0800

Does anybody know how to make bookmarklets? (Also here.) I have an idea for a great one for Metafilter users.

I, like many, use lo-fi me-fi almost exclusively. It's easier on the server, it's easier on my eyes, and it's not so obviously "not work." But when I want to post a comment, in lo-fi, I have to go up to the URL bar and delete the string "comments_deleted." from the URL and click Enter to bring up the comment window. A bookmarklet that did this would allow me to bring up that comment window with a single click to the links toolbar (IE6) -- and perhaps strip out the color at the same time? Anyone?