On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Jason King <[email protected]> wrote:
> My logic in mind is that the bookmarklet just grabs the current url, runs > my script, autocreating a redirect, etc. How should the resulting url be > provided? Open a new website saying "hello! Here is your new URL" or just > have it announce it as a javascript alert in the browser? > Check out how bit.ly does it. When you hit their bookmarklet it opens a new tab in FF that goes to their web site and shows you the shortened link, and they have a button to put the link in your clipboard. Only gripe I have with bit.ly is the text field that shows the shortened URL and the copy button are done in Flash--seems completely unnecessary to me. -- Matthew Woodward [email protected] http://blog.mattwoodward.com identi.ca/Twitter: @mpwoodward Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, etc. as attachments. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en !! save a network - please trim replies before posting !! To unsubscribe from this group, send email to openbd+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
