22nd March 2001

Oh, I'm totally addicted to BOOKMARKLETS.COM. What I can't figure out is why browsers don't come with them by default? They're free JavaScriptlets that will maximize anybody's surfing experience. I wanted to launch a new Internet Explorer session with a black background; I can get that by entering the following into the Start Menu's Run command field: *** javascript: void ( document.bgColor = '#000000' ) *** (copy and paste everything in between the sets of asterisks, NOT including the asterisks themselves). Amazing! Have you've ever smacked into a Web page that was impossible to read because its designer couldn't coordinate colors correctly? Well, paste the same string of text into the current browser's Address field and watch what happens. Of course, the code may need to be edited ever-so-slightly. #000000 is hexadecimal HTML for black; #FFFFFF is hexadecimal for white. How can you uncover your favorite color's hexadecimal equivalent? The easiest way is to grab the bookmarklet for displaying the 216 Standard browser colors. Many image editing programs come with automatic hex translations, too.