Cross Browser bookmark script?

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Sindarin
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Cross Browser bookmark script?

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I am trying to make an "Add to favorites" button and so far I have found:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/addbook.htm

which runs on all three browsers, but still counts one out: Safari.
Is there a solution for this?
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Let the user decide and do it themselves; they aren't morons.
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Post by JellyFish »

feyd wrote:Let the user decide and do it themselves; they aren't morons.
I don't see anything wrong with having a add to favorites button. I think this would be something good to know.

But I don't think Safari 3 has this ability. The only fall-back I can think of is alerting the user to do it manually.
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Post by Sindarin »

Let the user decide and do it themselves; they aren't morons.
True, but my client thinks otherwise. :D

That's the only script so far I've found to work with Safari as well, but it simply alerts the user.
http://www.dynamicsitesolutions.com/jav ... rk-script/
so it seems Safari doesn't have a prompt for this.
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Post by matthijs »

Sindarin wrote:True, but my client thinks otherwise. :D
Exactly why I find client-education the hardest part of the job ... ;)

I do agree with Feyd, it's silly to replicate this behavior. A text-resize widget is something I might consider sometimes. But consider this: when a user doesn't know how to bookmark a page, he won't be able to find the bookmark anyway after he's used the bookmark widget.
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matthijs wrote:But consider this: when a user doesn't know how to bookmark a page, he won't be able to find the bookmark anyway after he's used the bookmark widget.
Wow 8O

Although this is painfully obvious I have never considered this before.
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