Posts by Jason Clark

Welcome back to “Code Words.” In this column, we are going to look at bookmarklets - little snippets of Javascript that extend your web browser to do interesting and useful actions. Bookmarklets range from allowing you to "pin" a current page to Pinterest without visiting the site directly (http://pinterest.com/about/goodies/) to tricking out your browser's text renderer so that all of your web pages appear in "Piratespeak" (http://www.blippitt.com/talk-like-a-pirate-day-widget-try-this/). We are going to build a citation bookmarklet that parses page information and formats it into a ready-made citation for pasting into docs, your research, or an email. Read More »