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Wikipedia:Magic Button

I have created for myself a little Wikipedia button in my browser that I find very useful. I want to share it with you now. It works perfectly
for me in Netscape under Linux, but I assume there will be a few minor
problems with Windows and IE.

NEW: there is a Windows IE version and a Netscape version. I look forward to feedback on both...

(For now visit this page: Magic Button Instructions (http://www.wikipedia.com/texts/magic_button)

Then, you can go to any web page, highlight any text of interest, click the button and magically search on Wikipedia for that text.

Please add comments here, which I can switch to the other page. The reason I don't put the javascript right here on this page is that the
wikipedia software justifiably doesn't like javascript on the pages.

See also : Wikipedia

since the link is not working I post some small modifications I made to
Jimmy's magic button. This works with Mozilla with the new wikipedia
software, just drag the code below to your bookmarks bar.

javascript:q=document.getSelection();for(i=0;i<frames.length;i++){q=frames[i].document.getSelection();if(q)break;}if(!q)void(q=prompt('Enter text to search using Wikipedia. You can also highlight a word on this web page before clicking Wikipedia.',''));if(q)location./w/wiki.phtml?search='+escape(q)



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