- Smart bookmark
Smart Bookmarks are an extended kind of internet bookmark used in
web browser s. By accepting an argument they directly give access to functions ofweb site s, as opposed to fillingweb form s at the respective web site for accessing these functions. Smart Bookmarks can be used forweb search es, or access to data onweb site s with uniformly structured web addresses, e.g.user profile s in aweb forum .Smart Bookmarks first were introduced in
OmniWeb on theNEXTSTEP platform in the mid-1990s, and subsequently taken up by Opera,Galeon andInternet Explorer for Mac by the turn of the century. As of 2007, they can now be used in many web browsers, most of which areMozilla based, likeKazehakase , Epiphany, andMozilla Firefox .In Epiphany, Smart Bookmarks appear in a
dropdown menu when entering text in the address bar. By selecting a Smart Bookmark the respective web site is accessed using the text as argument. Smart Bookmarks can also be added to thetoolbar , together with their own textbox.The same applies to
Galeon , which also allows the user to collapse and expand the textboxes within thetoolbar . InKazehakase queries can be formulated either with a simple argument, or more flexibly usingregular expression s.Smart Bookmarks can also be shared, and there is a collection of them at the web site of the
Galeon project.See also
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Bookmarklets , making it possible to use javascript with smart bookmarks
* iMacros for Firefox, embeds web browser macros in bookmarks or linksExternal links
* [http://galeon.sourceforge.net/bookmarks/ Smart Bookmarks] at the Galeon site
* [http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/smartbookmarks.html Introduction to Smart Bookmarks] with examples, at the Epiphany site
* [http://ptaff.ca/smart/?lang=en_CA Smart Bookmarks And Bookmarklets]
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