add to favorites link

[shank]

Is there any one "add to favorites" code that will work for IE, NS, AOL, and
a host of others? At least some code that will give me an effective "add to
favorites" for the highest percentage of users. The code in my searches have
been disclaimed has working with this but not that. I'm not sure how old
some of this code is either.
thanks!

[HikksNotAtHome]

In article <Z8*********************@twister.tampabay.rr.com >, "shank"
<sh***@tampabay.rr.com> writes:

Is there any one "add to favorites" code that will work for IE, NS, AOL, and
a host of others? At least some code that will give me an effective "add to
favorites" for the highest percentage of users. The code in my searches have
been disclaimed has working with this but not that. I'm not sure how old
some of this code is either.
thanks!

There is no code that will add a site to my favorites in AOL.
Three ways to add Favorites in AOL:

1) Right Click>Add To Favorites works but the window.external.AddFavorite
doesn't work with AOL.
2)Click the heart that AOL adds to the upper right corner of the browser window
and that action isn't scriptable.
Even if you could script clicking that heart, clicking it brings up another
window that has a menu on it that has to be clicked, to show yet another menu,
before you actually have saved it to favorites.
3) Drag the heart to the favorites folder and drop it.

That is for the PC version of AOL. The MAC versions may act differently.
--
Randy
All code posted is dependent upon the viewing browser
supporting the methods called, and Javascript being enabled.

[HikksNotAtHome]

In article <Z8*********************@twister.tampabay.rr.com >, "shank"
<sh***@tampabay.rr.com> writes:

Is there any one "add to favorites" code that will work for IE, NS, AOL, and
a host of others? At least some code that will give me an effective "add to
favorites" for the highest percentage of users. The code in my searches have
been disclaimed has working with this but not that. I'm not sure how old
some of this code is either.
thanks!

There is no code that will add a site to my favorites in AOL.
Three ways to add Favorites in AOL:

1) Right Click>Add To Favorites works but the window.external.AddFavorite
doesn't work with AOL.
2)Click the heart that AOL adds to the upper right corner of the browser window
and that action isn't scriptable.
Even if you could script clicking that heart, clicking it brings up another
window that has a menu on it that has to be clicked, to show yet another menu,
before you actually have saved it to favorites.
3) Drag the heart to the favorites folder and drop it.

That is for the PC version of AOL. The MAC versions may act differently.
--
Randy
All code posted is dependent upon the viewing browser
supporting the methods called, and Javascript being enabled.

[Jerry Park]

shank wrote:

Is there any one "add to favorites" code that will work for IE, NS, AOL, and
a host of others? At least some code that will give me an effective "add to
favorites" for the highest percentage of users. The code in my searches have
been disclaimed has working with this but not that. I'm not sure how old
some of this code is either.
thanks!

There shouldn't be a way to do that in any browser.

If I want a bookmark (or favorite) to your site, I'll add it manually. I
don't want anyone's programming to modify my browser.

[Jerry Park]

shank wrote:

Is there any one "add to favorites" code that will work for IE, NS, AOL, and
a host of others? At least some code that will give me an effective "add to
favorites" for the highest percentage of users. The code in my searches have
been disclaimed has working with this but not that. I'm not sure how old
some of this code is either.
thanks!

There shouldn't be a way to do that in any browser.

If I want a bookmark (or favorite) to your site, I'll add it manually. I
don't want anyone's programming to modify my browser.

[shank]

"Jerry Park" <No*****@No.Spam> wrote in message
news:Gh*****************@fe04.atl2.webusenet.com.. .

shank wrote:

Is there any one "add to favorites" code that will work for IE, NS, AOL, and a host of others? At least some code that will give me an effective "add to favorites" for the highest percentage of users. The code in my searches have been disclaimed has working with this but not that. I'm not sure how old
some of this code is either.
thanks!

There shouldn't be a way to do that in any browser.

If I want a bookmark (or favorite) to your site, I'll add it manually. I
don't want anyone's programming to modify my browser.

I wasn't intending to do it manually.
I would have a button or link.

[shank]

"Jerry Park" <No*****@No.Spam> wrote in message
news:Gh*****************@fe04.atl2.webusenet.com.. .

shank wrote:

Is there any one "add to favorites" code that will work for IE, NS, AOL, and a host of others? At least some code that will give me an effective "add to favorites" for the highest percentage of users. The code in my searches have been disclaimed has working with this but not that. I'm not sure how old
some of this code is either.
thanks!

There shouldn't be a way to do that in any browser.

If I want a bookmark (or favorite) to your site, I'll add it manually. I
don't want anyone's programming to modify my browser.

I wasn't intending to do it manually.
I would have a button or link.

[Philip Ronan]

On 03.8.10 8:15 PM, shank wrote:

"Jerry Park" <No*****@No.Spam> wrote in message
news:Gh*****************@fe04.atl2.webusenet.com.. .

shank wrote:

Is there any one "add to favorites" code that will work for IE, NS, AOL, and a host of others? At least some code that will give me an effective "add to favorites" for the highest percentage of users. The code in my searches have been disclaimed has working with this but not that. I'm not sure how old
some of this code is either.
thanks!

There shouldn't be a way to do that in any browser.

If I want a bookmark (or favorite) to your site, I'll add it manually. I
don't want anyone's programming to modify my browser.

I wasn't intending to do it manually.
I would have a button or link.

I think what Jerry means is that if there happened to be some way of doing
this in Javascript, then every idiot web designer would try and add his own
site to the favorites list of every single visitor without asking their
permission (e.g., <BODY onload='addToFavorites()'>). (OK, so you would have
a "button or link", but there's already a button in just about every browser
that fulfils this purpose anyway.)

So where would that get us? Everyone would have favorites lists full of
rubbishy websites that had added themselves automatically, and the whole
idea of having a Favorites list would become useless overnight.

That's why it's impossible. Hope that clears everything up.

Phil

--
Philip Ronan
ph***********@virgin.net
(Please remove the "z"s if replying by email)

[Philip Ronan]

On 03.8.10 8:15 PM, shank wrote:

"Jerry Park" <No*****@No.Spam> wrote in message
news:Gh*****************@fe04.atl2.webusenet.com.. .

shank wrote:

Is there any one "add to favorites" code that will work for IE, NS, AOL, and a host of others? At least some code that will give me an effective "add to favorites" for the highest percentage of users. The code in my searches have been disclaimed has working with this but not that. I'm not sure how old
some of this code is either.
thanks!

There shouldn't be a way to do that in any browser.

If I want a bookmark (or favorite) to your site, I'll add it manually. I
don't want anyone's programming to modify my browser.

I wasn't intending to do it manually.
I would have a button or link.

I think what Jerry means is that if there happened to be some way of doing
this in Javascript, then every idiot web designer would try and add his own
site to the favorites list of every single visitor without asking their
permission (e.g., <BODY onload='addToFavorites()'>). (OK, so you would have
a "button or link", but there's already a button in just about every browser
that fulfils this purpose anyway.)

So where would that get us? Everyone would have favorites lists full of
rubbishy websites that had added themselves automatically, and the whole
idea of having a Favorites list would become useless overnight.

That's why it's impossible. Hope that clears everything up.

Phil

--
Philip Ronan
ph***********@virgin.net
(Please remove the "z"s if replying by email)

[andy]

In article <BB**************************@virgin.net>, Philip
Ronan <ph***********@virgin.net> writes

On 03.8.10 8:15 PM, shank wrote:
snip
So where would that get us? Everyone would have favorites lists full of
rubbishy websites that had added themselves automatically, and the whole
idea of having a Favorites list would become useless overnight.

That's why it's impossible. Hope that clears everything up.

Phil

Is it possible using some other method?

I'm asking because this happened to me once.
A mysterious site appeared in my favourites list.

I like to know how they did that!

Cheers.
--
andy