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November 15, 2011 20:28
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Quick Cross-Browser jQuery Bookmark Script
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| $('a#bookmark').click(function(e){ | |
| e.preventDefault(); | |
| var bookmarkURL = this.href; | |
| var bookmarkTitle = this.title; | |
| try { | |
| if (window.sidebar) { // moz | |
| window.sidebar.addPanel(bookmarkTitle, bookmarkURL, ""); | |
| } else if (window.external || document.all) { // ie | |
| window.external.AddFavorite(bookmarkURL, bookmarkTitle); | |
| } else if (window.opera) { // duh | |
| $('a#bookmark').attr('href',bookmarkURL); | |
| $('a#bookmark').attr('title',bookmarkTitle); | |
| $('a#bookmark').attr('rel','sidebar'); | |
| } | |
| } catch (err) { // catch all incl webkit | |
| alert('Sorry. Your browser does not support this bookmark action. Please bookmark this page manually.'); | |
| } | |
| }); |
window.sidebar.addPanel() was removed from firefox as of version 23.
to work for firefox >23 , add rel="sidebar" in your tag.
is it possible to make this unchecked?
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if you try this at safari, the operation will fail silently and not alert something. A catch statement catches only exceptions, but there won't be any, because the if statements prevent any.