Signal Boost: SignalBoost✔ bookmarklet
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astolat posted: SignalBoost bookmarklet
Okay, here is the little bookmarklet -- it's pretty limited, but it serves my own laziness, so I share it FWIW and if anyone has the time and wants to upgrade it, go for it and drop me a comment and I'll (ha ha) signal boost any new versions!
astolat shared a javascript bookmarklet that automates the (existing custom of) DW-style signalboost/linksharing! It looks like the above part of this post. I think it will be very useful for people who use Dreamwidth differently from me.And the first comment on it was somebody hoping people would check for access lock when using it, and, well, my coding fingers were itchy (they get itchy about every six months, which is not actually often enough to build skill, sadly), and
astolat gave permission to modify, so here's a modified version that automatically warns you if you're about to link to a locked DW post. (I think it would probably also work on locked LJ posts but I haven't accepted LJ TOS, so I can't test that.)(Now I know how to make javascript bookmarklets! I hope I don't go mad with power.)
All you do is log in to DW, go to the page you want to signal boost, highlight any text you want to quote, and then click on the bookmarklet. If it's access-locked, you'll get a pop-up warning you and asking you if you want to continue. On any other webpage, it will automatically redirect to the DW posting window.
To set it up, make a new bookmark, and copy-paste the following as the URL:
(If I get around to it, I may figure out how to make it open in a new tab, too. If so I'll update this post.)
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So - sort of for Tumblr users, if they want to do that, but in a way that won't annoy DW people? But there are plenty of people who have been linkblogging on DW for a long time, and this just makes it really easy.
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I appreciate your explaining so much.
I guess I don't know what a bookmarklet is, basically. Thanks again.
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It takes the text you highlighted and copy-pastes it into a preformatted DW post that links to the page using your highlighted text and automatically crediting the author and so on, so all you have to do is press "post", and you have a link post. (You can add more to it if you want.)
A bookmarklet is basically a thing that abuses the ability to put javascript in a URL to let you execute a tiny javascript program by clicking the bookmark - in this case, it executes a program that copies the link info to a posting window, but it can do most things that javascript can do.
I doubt I'll ever use this one because I don't do a lot of just linking to other posts, but if that was a major part of how you blog, this will speed it up a lot and take out all the annoying fiddly bits.
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