[thelist] How to create bookmark links?

Joe Crawford jcrawford at avencom.com
Wed Feb 7 19:36:31 CST 2001


Bill Mason wrote:
> >goes something like this
> ><a href="javascript:window.external.AddFavorite(url,title);"
> >onmouseout=" window.status=' '; return true "
> >onmouseover=" window.status='Add our site to your favorites!'; return
> >true"><b>bookmark this page</b></a>
> Note that this method only works on the non-AOL IE4+ PC browser.
> 
> As far as know, there is no way to do something similar on other
> browsers/platforms.

And, I'll add, I find it to be profoundly irritating that a site could
use this function to make me bookmark them. On that basis this use of
javascript makes me sad.

It's neat, but irritating.

	- Joe
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