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.
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