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Use Safari's bookmark bar to simulate Camino keywords
Authored by: Casemon on May 16, '09 08:37:31AM

This is apparently broken in Safari v4b.

The javascript doesn't show any popup. Clicking the item does nothing (used the Dictionary.com example as a test).

Too bad too, as I've been looking for a good keyword solution for Safari that doesn't involve buggy/system-slowing plugins, nor require I run a local server.

Use Safari's bookmark bar to simulate Camino keywords
Authored by: Casemon on May 16, '09 09:28:15AM

Actually, it apparently works if you use window.location.href before anything else:

This doesn't work:
javascript:q=prompt('Word:%20','');location.href='http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q='+q';

But this works:

javascript:window.location.href='http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q='+escape(prompt('Search%20for%20word%20on%20Reference.com:'));

This also works:
javascript:window.location.href='http://us.imdb.com/find?s=all&q='+escape(prompt('Search%20IMDb:'));

Hope this helps!

Use Safari's bookmark bar to simulate Camino keywords
Authored by: Casemon on May 16, '09 11:00:50AM

So it seems that some Javascript works, some doesn't... found you don't have to have window.location.href before anything else; for example...

These also work:

javascript:void(q=prompt('Search%20YouTube:',getSelection()));if(q)void(location.href='http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query='+escape(q)+'&search_sort=video_view_count')

javascript:void(q=prompt('Enter%20text%20to%20search%20Amazon.',getSelection()));if(q)void(location.href='http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/external-search/?keyword='+escape(q)+'&mode=blended&tag=blogography-21&Go=Go')

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