HTMLtagWrap('textarea', 'id=histURIs rows=12 cols=120 nowrap') + to be done: add a scURIbbler to massage this textarea ' + cleanup and delete the new bookmark if desired ' + drag & drop the new bookmark (aka a container) here (replace this content) ' + click the link to create a bookmark that accesses the URI library ' + make the href place: query for the link in step 2. '.HTMLtagWrap('b', ' style='vertical-align:top ' ' ) + ' (hint: to see the actual link, mouse over it 2x)' + ' onmouseover ='with(this)title=id+(href=)' ' This screenshot shows the browser running on a NeXT computer in 1993. In addition, it included the ability to modify pages from directly inside the browser the first Web editing capability. ' href='places:' rel='sidebar' title='hystryx ' id='hystryx ' ' + Berners-Lee’s original Web browser running on NeXT computers showed his vision and had many of the features of current Web browsers. 'This link bookmarks the place: URI from step 1: ' + 'suggestions: try just a raw place: with no corpus or places: (undocumented with an s) ' + Putting it all together: data:text/html charset=utf-8, It is possible to recover some of this information (such as titles by opening each URI to extract them, doing so of course changes the URI 'most recent access date' in the history) to render the URI as 'nice' links. Note a significant limitation is that this process retrieves ONLY the history's URI's and none of the history chronology, titles, etc. extract historyĭrag and drop the now bookmarked place: URI ' hystryx' into a target. Ergo, might as well resolve left click to redirect immediately to bookmark. extract historyĬlicking the link fails but right click bookmarking it and then clicking the bookmark 'succeeds'. Using javascript construct a place: scheme URI with the appropriate. Js js is js - Just Saying JavaScript is Just 'Simple') (is not this anathema to the whole precept of the Order of Automata aka computer automation? The solution suggested here also requiresĨ ~ 10 cleanup and delete results from bookmarks Used maybe exclusive and not universally available in other browsersĪt the expense of a little more manually labour intensive intervention than The FF test environment identified above - some of the 'conventions' (The intimate familiarity with this subject is unfortunately due to the severely crippled FF released as QuickWeb by Device VM in the Splashtop system.) On the web: /en-US/docs/Web/API/Window.history Window.history - Web API Interfaces | MDN.The URI place: schema provides a modicum of potential for the javascript 'only' (mousing around required) solution given below.įirst note the distinction between session history, which can be accessed via History and window.history, and the overall browser history (in FF this is known as part of the library and another library part being bookmarks) which has no direct javascript access interfacing.

History of browser