The good points are that :
- the code is remotely loaded (so updatable and more simply testable)
- you have no length limitation
- you can dispatch the code in various libaries
To disable the browser cache, we've added a random parameter in the the last javascript url. For performance, it's better to not disable the cache but it's very useful when testing.
baseurl = 'http://example.com/bookmarklet/'; var scripts = new Array( baseurl + 'date.js', baseurl + 'encoding.js', baseurl + 'http.js', baseurl + 'bookmarklet.js?x=' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 9999) ); for (i=0;i<scripts.length;i++) { var x = document.getElementsByTagName('head').item(0); var o = document.createElement('script'); if (typeof o != 'object') o = document.standardCreateElement('script'); o.setAttribute('src', scripts[i] ); o.setAttribute('type','text/javascript'); x.appendChild(o); }
Past the code above in a bookmarklet crunchinator to generate the bookmarklet. http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/bookmarklet.html
Not fully tested. It may have some issues.