Re: Bookmarklets [was Annotea posting

Art's bookmarklet stuff is supposed to be coming to public release soon. They
should work in any javascript-capable browser, but are not at the moment
providing the full service.

iCab is a browser for the Macintosh: http://www.icab.de

cheers

Charles McCN

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Leonard R. Kasday wrote:

  Charles,
  Thanks for mentioning bookmarklets.  It turns out that lots of the
  bookmarklets qualify as repair tools for web pages by e.g. changing colors,
  listing email addresses, pulling out largest frame, etc.  Info at

  http://www.bookmarklets.com/tools/categor.html

  Would you give the Art Barstow referece?  and iCab?

  Len


  At 12:39 PM 4/9/01 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
  >Or, you could anotate the message with a "seeAlso" type anotation - pointer
  >to somewhere else...
  >
  >By the way, the bookmarkelt thing that Art Barstow developed is col and works
  >in iCab as well as other javascript capable browsers.
  >
  >The basic idea is that I have a bookmark entry that is
  >javascript:dotherightthings() (well, it's longer than that...) which I call
  >"Annotate this page" and another that I call "get annotations for this page".
  >SO I don't have to rely on having Amaya. (Un less I want to annotate a
  >particular part of the page - browsers aren't normally smart enough to do
  >that).
  >
  >cheers
  >
  >Charles
  >
  >BTW I wrote a thread on xtech about the annotea stuff:
  >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2001Apr/0004
  >
  >On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Leonard R. Kasday wrote:
  >
  >   I just posted the annotea questions that came up in our meeting to the
  >   annotea list [1].  We'll be able to follow the discussion there.
  >
  >   [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-annotation/2001JanJun/0009.html
  >
  >
  >   Len
  >   p.s.
  >   I omitted the question about combatting annotation spam to focus on the
  >   more EARL related questions.
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  --
  Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D.
  Institute on Disabilities/UAP and Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Temple
  University
  (215) 204-2247 (voice)                 (800) 750-7428 (TTY)
  http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday         mailto:kasday@acm.org

  Chair, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Evaluation and Repair Tools Group
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/

  The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant:
  http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/


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W3C Web Accessibility Initiative     http://www.w3.org/WAI    fax: +1 617 258 5999
Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia
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