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Bottom Line - 25 Jun 2008 03:01 GMT

Does anyone know how to make bookmark scripts that work in IE7? None of the
previous codes or scripts using the window.external object work now. I've
searched high and low and can't find any solutions. The only thing I found
was a script that would inform users they needed to add to favorites to IE
the manual way. Thanks!

In case you're curious about the script that will tell IE users they have to
manually add to favorites, here is the sample from havascript.com:
<a href=”#” rel=”sidebar” onclick=”if(document.all && !window.opera){
alert(’Havascript.com\n\n Thanks for attempting to bookmark us…\n …but you
have to do it the old fashion, manual way in IE.’); return false; }else{
this.title = document.title; }” onMouseover=”window.status=’Bookmark
Havascript.com’;return true” onMouseout=”window.status=”;return true”
title=”Bookmark Havascript.com”>Bookmark!</a>

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rob^_^ - 25 Jun 2008 03:47 GMT

Hi,

Right-click on the link and select Add to Favorites from the drop-down menu.

Here is the code snippet I use to allow visitors to add links or documents
to their favorites.
function addToBookMarks(sHref, sTitle)

{

if(document.all)

window.external.AddFavorite(sHref, sTitle);

else if(window.sidebar)

alert("Netscape and Firefox users.\nRight-Click this link and select
\'Bookmark this link...\' from the drop-down menu.");

//window.sidebar.addPanel(sTitle, sHref,'');

}

The Netscape and Fx browsers will add bookmarks with the Open in Sidebar
option selected. Not a nice feature.

All browsers allow you to select Add to Favorites or Add to Bookmarks from
the context menu.

Regards.

> Does anyone know how to make bookmark scripts that work in IE7? None of
> the
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> Havascript.com';return true" onMouseout="window.status=";return true"
> title="Bookmark Havascript.com">Bookmark!</a>

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Bottom Line - 25 Jun 2008 06:39 GMT

Thanks for your reply. but your script does not work in IE 7 either. Also,
I did not say I didn't know how to save to Favorites, so I don't understand
the purpose of your first sentence. In fact, hitting CTRL-D in IE 7 is
easier than right clicking.

In any case, there are tons of scripts on saving to Favorites (the ones I
use for Firefox and Netscape to not have the problem of adding bookmarks with
the Open in Sidebar > option selected. It's just that none of them work in
IE7.

And I am not the only one with this issue as havascript.com posted about
this on his site as well. Hopefully, someone will come up with a script that
actually works and will post it.

I'm surprised that more is not said about this issue since it is still
easier to provide someone with a button (or link) to click and have the
favorites window pop up AND be prepopulated with the information that will be
saved as tiy want it (rather than defaulting to title of the page, which can
be quite long)

Anyone else have any suggestions?

> Hi,
>
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> > Havascript.com';return true" onMouseout="window.status=";return true"
> > title="Bookmark Havascript.com">Bookmark!</a>

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