javascript bookmarklets not working

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javascript bookmarklets not working

I use 1 line javascript bookmarklets.
They have the code %5Cn which used to send a carriage return, line feed so that I could have some text on 1 line, and the rest on a new line. But that does not work anymore. Everything is on the same line since updating to Safari 3.0.4.

I also tried using %5Cn%5Cr which should put a new line, carriage return. It did not make any difference.

What else could I try?

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Posted on Jan 29, 2009 10:57 PM

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iBod

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Jan 30, 2009 1:28 AM in response to Judy

Hi Judy,

Can you post the javascript in question?

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Judy Author

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Jan 30, 2009 11:07 AM in response to iBod

This is the script.
Please note that I now have 3 spaces between the subject and the URL just to separate them visually.

javascript:location.href='mailto:?SUBJECT=' document.title+'&BODY='+document.title+'%5Cn%20%20%20%3C'+escape(location.href)'%3E'

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iBod

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Feb 1, 2009 7:38 AM in response to Judy

Hi Judy,

Try this:

javascript:location.href='mailto:?SUBJECT=' document.title+'&BODY='+document.titleencodeURIComponent('\n\n %3C' location.href'%3E')

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Judy Author

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Feb 1, 2009 1:12 PM in response to iBod

It works perfectly. Thank you.

Now I will just add email addresses and I have a very quick way to send URLs to certain people. They will then have the title and subject in the email. I like this better than the way Safari does it from the file menu.

Why did the old way of doing it stop working? Did Javascript change, did Safari change, or something else changed? I also had other scripts that stopped working. Some of them were just for fun, but some were useful. (The mail was the most useful). I can understand them, but I don't know enough to write them. I got most of them from websites.

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iBod

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Feb 1, 2009 1:16 PM in response to Judy

Hi Judy,

Why did the old way of doing it stop working?

To be honest, I have no idea. I'm not on a Mac at the moment so was testing with Firefox. Firefox was also not placing the address on a new line. It may have been a bug in Safari that was fixed and broke the behaviour you expected. That's a complete guess though 🙂

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Judy Author

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Feb 1, 2009 5:52 PM in response to iBod

I now tried using more than 1 email address. So instead of just

'mailto:?

I used 'mailto:name1@xxx.com,name2@xxx.com?

It works ok for 1 or2 names. If I use 3 or more names, then either the emails get messed up and/or the subject is not right.

What is the right way to enter several email addresses?

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iBod

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Feb 1, 2009 6:21 PM in response to Judy

I don't believe there is any 'official' way to specify more than one address. Support seems to depend from client to client.

You may have more success using cc. E.g.:

javascript:location.href='mailto:a@test.com?cc=b@test.com&cc=c@test.com&SUBJECT= ' document.title+'&BODY='+document.title+encodeURIComponent('nn%20%20%20%3C'+locat ion.href'%3E')

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Judy Author

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Feb 1, 2009 7:06 PM in response to iBod

Thanks again. It works perfectly.

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Judy Author

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Feb 12, 2009 10:53 PM in response to iBod

Another question - why does the script work for most sites, but not all.
Sometimes just a part of the title shows up, and no link at all.
For Example, with this page
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008719778_docphones08.html?s r=hotnews>

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iBod

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Feb 13, 2009 3:29 AM in response to Judy

Hello again Judy,

That page you posted has an ampersand (&) in the title which is a reserved character and needs to be escaped. Give this a try (seems to work for me):

javascript:location.href='mailto:a@test.com?cc=b@test.com&cc=c@test.com&SUBJECT= '+ escape(document.title )\ '&BODY=' escape(document.title ) encodeURIComponent('nn%20%20%20%3C'+location.href'%3E')

Edit: For anyone else reading, that's supposed to be a single line but the forum is wrapping the line strangely...

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Judy Author

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Feb 13, 2009 3:39 AM in response to iBod

Again, that works perfectly.

Will this take care of all special characters that may show up in a title?

Can you recommend a good book for learning JavaScript, especially things like this?

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iBod

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Feb 13, 2009 4:19 AM in response to Judy

Hi Judy,

Will this take care of all special characters that may show up in a title?

It should do (I hope)

Can you recommend a good book for learning JavaScript, especially things like this?

I'm afraid I tend to use online resources rather than a book. Amazon might have some good rankings to figure which books might be worth investigated further. I probably go to this site more often than not, but usually I just go where Google guides me to 🙂

http://www.w3schools.com/JS/default.asp

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Judy Author

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Mar 21, 2009 1:44 AM in response to iBod

I have another site that does not work with the Javascript.
Can you figure out why this one does not generate a new email message at all?

<http://www.edibleapple.com/report-next-iphone-to-include-video-recording/>

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Judy Author

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Mar 21, 2009 1:45 AM in response to Judy

Another site does not produce an email message. I thought the problem was solved, but there seems to be something amiss

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