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elearning2.0 :: putting the 'oh!' back into elearning Weblog 32 entries 04-August-2006 1 authors
show or hide details for this item Finessing a Linkroll... Discussion Topic 0 replies 11-November-2005 Tony Hirst
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Many blogsites and VLEs do not allow users to enter Javascript, whioch makes it difficult to embed linkrolls. However, there may be a solution, if a user is prepared to make use of borwser extensions...
The Greasemokey Firefox extension allows user defined scripts to augment web pages with additional content. I wonder whether a useful extension would be to search a web page for links to delicious, perhaps embedded in a tag with a particular class (=linkroll) and augment the page with a a javascript include to pull the page in, or perhaps an iframe containing a view of the links? Alternatively, it may be possible to use a Javascript bookmarklet to achieve a similar end? What this tool would allow is for the user to decide whether or not to reveal an embedded view of the linkroll, given a delicious url? This idea of *users* being able to augment and exploit pages particularly appeals to me (e.g. most recently with the idea of searchlinks and pagelink searches.)

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