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So I’m digging WordSource, as I mentioned in my last blog post. I’m thinking that an easy to use bookmarklet would be really handy for it and wishing somebody would create one for me.

Then I think to myself, well…. People create bookmarklets, right? It’s just code, right? How hard can it possibly be?

So I take a close look at two of my favorite bookmarklets, for del.icio.us and for WordPress. I paste the code into Notepad and examine what’s there. Then I actually use the one for WordPress and examine the result. While I don’t quite understand things like “navigator.userAgent.indexof” or things like “Q=document.selection?document.selection.createrange()”, I do clearly recognize where it takes the text I’ve highlighted and puts it in the URL. And I clearly see where it references my own blog and sticks in that URL.

SO, I start deleting some things that look like they’re extraneous and then I change references from my blog to “wordsource.sc”. I copy the whole thing, create a new bookmark from it and try it out. And guess what??????? I failed miserably.

Heh. Oops. Typo. It isn’t Wordsource.sc, it’s just Word.sc. I correct the typo and………….

Success! Time to do the happy Snoopy dance.

As I’ve said before, I don’t know javascript, I don’t know programming, but its amazing what a little confidence, logical thinking and perseverance [syn: doggedness, persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness, pertinacity] will do for you!

Oh yeah, if you’d like a copy of the bookmarklet, you’ll have to email me. For some reason I’m having trouble getting it to work correctly in WordPress. Gotta spend more time geeking out I guess