Expecting Rain

Today I was toying with the concept of how to create a bookmarklet that would scrape a page pulling text, formatting, and photos to make a copy of the selected information on an active page. Basically a script that could be used with a web clippings type application. I have no immediate use for this, but wanted to explore the strength of bookmarklets. As I sat trying to figure out how to get this information from a page, I realized that Google Notebook does this with their Firefox extension. I was able to look at the code for their extension which is written in javascript and come up with the functionality to do this.

Learning from the web doesn't just entail doing Google searches and finding someone who tells you what to do, but it also provides wonderful examples of implemented technology on every page. What a great resource.