Controlling the del.icio.us Post Popup
Category: Internet...
Posted Friday, January 28, 2005 at 11:09 AM [GMT-6]

I'm trying to get up to speed on the concept and practice of folksonomy. You may have noticed that many of my recent posts have Technorati tags, and I've now signed up with del.icio.us (and most of my bookmarks thereon are related to folksonomy, if you care to read more about it).

One of the things del.icio.us (which, btw, is a real pain in the rear to type) provides is a toolbar script that allows you to quickly add the current website to your bookmark list. It accomplishes this via a Javascript which creates a popup window with a simple form pre-populated with the URL and title of the site. You then add the relevant tags to categorize the entry, and you can also add a short description of the site if the title isn't sufficient.

The default Javascript unfortunately positioned the popup window behind my current browser window, requiring me to either use the Firefox Window menu item to select the popup, or use Exposé (Mac user, remember?) to locate it. Neither approach is my ideal; I just want to click on a visible window.

There's a quick and simple fix: edit the Javascript to specify the position on your screen where the popup window will appear. Simply select "Manage Bookmarks" (Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape...IE users are on your own), select the del.icio.us popup post bookmark and edit it as follows:

Default installed bookmark:

javascript:q=location.href;p=document.title; void(open('http://del.icio.us/yourusername?v=2&noui=yes& jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(p), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=700,height=250'));

Edit bookmark (emphasis shows added code):

javascript:q=location.href;p=document.title; void(open('http://del.icio.us/yourusername?v=2&noui=yes& jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(p), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=700,height=250,top=50,left=50'));

This bit of coding will position the popup 50 pixels from the top and left of your screen.

You can also experiment with the popup size by altering the values of the width and height parameters. And, finally, if you want to be able to resize the popup, just add resizable=yes somewhere within those parameters.

Technorati tag: del.icio.us