Here's one of the most useful bookmarklets I have:
Go
Wayback
(Explorer 4+ and Netscape 4+)
Trigger it when you run into a
404. As time goes by, there will be increasingly more documents in the past than
we have in the present. So the value of a service that solves 404s, such as
Wayback (which archives old webpages) will increase.
Another good Wayback
bookmarklet:
Wayback
Undo
(Explorer 4+ and Netscape 4+)
which is necessary because once
you go into Wayback you stay in Wayback... this allows you to escape to the
present.
To push this a bit further, I'll bring up the topic of XMLHTTP (Microsoft's
documents and Mozilla's
documents).
This allows scripts on a page to request data from other
pages, so you can get a bookmarklet like:
<A
href="javascript:if(location.href.indexOf('http://web.archive.org/web/*')==0){h='';x=new
ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');W=open('','','width=500,height=300,scrollbars,resizable,status');W.status='Looking...';L=document.links;for(i=0;i<L.length;i++){if(L[i].href.lastIndexOf('http:')>1)try{x.open('GET',L[i].href,false);x.send();r=x.responseText;h+=r.length+'
- '+L[i].innerText.link(L[i].href)+'<br>';W.document.body.innerHTML=h}catch(e){}}W.status='Done'}else{alert('Go
Wayback first')}void(null)">Wayback Analyze</A>
(Explorer 5+ version)which, if triggered on a result of Go Wayback, will list the sizes of the archived documents. This gives some sense of the overall variation in the page over time. It would be easy to modify this to allow other analyses of the archived pages... allowing searches or summarizations, etc.
The idea of XMLHTTP could be used in other ways. For example, this bookmarklet:
<A
href="javascript:html='<head><base target=_blank></head><body>';str='';xmlhttp=new
ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');W=open('','','width=500,height=300,scrollbars,resizable,status');W.status='Looking...';lnks=document.links;for(i=0;i<lnks.length;i++){if(lnks[i].host.replace(/:.*/,'').indexOf(location.host)!=-1&&str.indexOf(lnks[i].href)==-1)try{xmlhttp.open('GET',
lnks[i].href, false);xmlhttp.send();r=xmlhttp.responseText;html+=r.substring(r.search(/<title>/i)+7,r.search(/<\/title>/i)).link(lnks[i].href)+'<br>';str+=lnks[i].href;W.document.body.innerHTML=html}catch(e){}}W.status='Done';void(null)">Self-Link
Titles</A>
(Explorer 5+ version)lists the titles of all pages that link off the current page into the same domain. Again, search and summarization are fairly easy. So you get a way to analyze the "cloud of meaning" around the current page.
From http://bookmarklets.com