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Quixapp: Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids

15 points by joeminkie 17y ago

joeminkie 17y ago
It's like a command line for the browser. See some commands here: http://quixapp.com/help/ http://quixapp.com/help/.
Sidnicious 17y ago
I'm blown away. I've been working on something virtually identical to this for a few months, and Quix does pretty much everything I had wanted. It's very nicely done, and I love the config file option.
rabidsnail 17y ago
Has anybody figured out how to set this as the default search engine in Chrome? Crome doesn't seem to like javascript: links as search engines.
- mbreese 17y ago
  Could you setup your own webpage somewhere that just calls the same javascript function? Then have Chrome point to your site as the search provider.
  - rabidsnail 17y ago
    That would kill the ability to modify the current page. I tried doing it with a tinyurl, too, but chrome doesn't let you redirect to javascript: urls (for good reason).
gnosis 17y ago
From a quick glance at the bookmarklet it seems that the way it works is it forwards the queries you type to quixapp.com. Can anyone who knows javascript confirm? Beautified copy of the bookmarklet source here: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/169181/ http://paste.pocoo.org/show/169181/
- jamesjyu 17y ago
  Yep, it does.
  - gnosis 17y ago
    That's too bad. It means you're giving information about yourself to whoever's running quixapp.com
cldwalker 17y ago
Although I like the minimal setup i.e. just a bookmarklet, I don't see why I would ever use this over ubiquity. Perhaps browser-independence? If that's your thing, I'd recommend http://queri.ac http://queri.ac which has plenty more features: * users can subscribe to public commands * commands have optional query history * public user, command, query pages * command tagging * commands have a powerful set of options, just like in a commandline, which map to url parameters: http://queri.ac/options_tutorial http://queri.ac/options_tutorial For more sites that have been doing web commands for years: http://delicious.com/tag/site:type=cmd http://delicious.com/tag/site:type=cmd
juvenn 17y ago
In chrome, http://thegleebox.com http://thegleebox.com will make your life easier, with its support for bookmarklets, it's a better choice than quixapp, I think.

15 points by joeminkie 17y ago

It's like a command line for the browser. See some commands here: http://quixapp.com/help/ http://quixapp.com/help/.

I'm blown away. I've been working on something virtually identical to this for a few months, and Quix does pretty much everything I had wanted. It's very nicely done, and I love the config file option.

rabidsnail 17y ago

Has anybody figured out how to set this as the default search engine in Chrome? Crome doesn't seem to like javascript: links as search engines.

mbreese 17y ago
Could you setup your own webpage somewhere that just calls the same javascript function? Then have Chrome point to your site as the search provider.
- rabidsnail 17y ago
  That would kill the ability to modify the current page. I tried doing it with a tinyurl, too, but chrome doesn't let you redirect to javascript: urls (for good reason).

gnosis 17y ago

From a quick glance at the bookmarklet it seems that the way it works is it forwards the queries you type to quixapp.com. Can anyone who knows javascript confirm? Beautified copy of the bookmarklet source here: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/169181/ http://paste.pocoo.org/show/169181/

jamesjyu 17y ago
Yep, it does.
- gnosis 17y ago
  That's too bad. It means you're giving information about yourself to whoever's running quixapp.com

cldwalker 17y ago

Although I like the minimal setup i.e. just a bookmarklet, I don't see why I would ever use this over ubiquity. Perhaps browser-independence? If that's your thing, I'd recommend http://queri.ac http://queri.ac which has plenty more features: * users can subscribe to public commands * commands have optional query history * public user, command, query pages * command tagging * commands have a powerful set of options, just like in a commandline, which map to url parameters: http://queri.ac/options_tutorial http://queri.ac/options_tutorial For more sites that have been doing web commands for years: http://delicious.com/tag/site:type=cmd http://delicious.com/tag/site:type=cmd

juvenn 17y ago

In chrome, http://thegleebox.com http://thegleebox.com will make your life easier, with its support for bookmarklets, it's a better choice than quixapp, I think.