I am adding bookmark from code. Now in Firefox if user already added the url as bookmark he should not be able to bookmark it again. How can I do it? For now every time a new bookmark is getting created.
A:
As an alternative, try setting a cookie whenever the user bookmarks your site using your Javascript. If the cookie exists, remove the bookmark button (or whatever).
strager
2009-03-02 13:36:15
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A:
If you want to prevent people from clicking a bookmark link on your website for a second time, you could try to write using cookies to hide the link if there's a cookie on the client.
As far as I know trying to check the bookmarks library (Places) in FireFox by using javascript on your website, that is impossible.
Zaagmans
2009-03-02 13:36:35
Yh. I will try that option if nothing easier found. :)
Tanmoy
2009-03-02 14:02:09
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A:
Obviously, you cannot, except for the above two good suggestions: use cookies. Or user information (although if they registered, they probably already bookmarked the site!). Cookie solution is brittle, though, as user can erase them.
Why you cannot: that would be an obvious security breach if a JavaScript program could read the list of bookmarks of the user: beside privacy concerns, one can have some sensible information in the URL parameters...
Side note: adding a bookmark is done on user action (or should be!). So users should know if they added the bookmark already, no?
PhiLho
2009-03-02 13:39:55
Right. But what sometimes happens that user forgets that he has added it in his bookmarks. In IE it gives an alert that bookmark already present.
Tanmoy
2009-03-02 14:00:53
@in-spite: I confusedly felt the word was wrong! :-P Thanks for correcting. Sensible is actually the French word... :-)
PhiLho
2009-03-02 21:32:30
+1
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"This method retrieves the list of bookmark IDs that contain the given URI."
vartec
2009-03-02 13:44:34