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Monday, August 9

A better Del.iocio.us poster

I've recently started using Del.icio.us, which is basically an online bookmark manager. It's nice to have access to my bookmarks regardless of what computer I'm on, and it has some cool social bookmarks aspects as well due to your bookmarks being public (better keep using your local bookmarks for more dubious sites). I only wish it had a way to import my hundreds of Safari bookmarks.

You access your bookmarks via a personal page on the delicious site, and you add a new bookmark with a link you put in your bookmarks bar. The problem with this link is that all it really does is loads a page on the delicious site with a form for entering your bookmark, and then reloads the original. This is workable, but not ideal. I really like the way Safari does bookmarks — no frills, right to the point. The great thing is, to the best of my knowledge it would be possible to make a version for delicious that looks and functions just like the browser's default new bookmark window, through the wonders of Javascript. I'd love for someone to make a new delicious poster script that pops up a javascript alert box with a couple of text entry fields for Name and Tags (the hard part would be giving a list of your tags you already have, but even the standard delicious poster page doesn't do that). Is there some limitation of javascript that prevents this? If not, someone get going on it!.

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